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Guest OS

  • Windows

    Download sdelete from Microsoft Technet

    sdelete -c -z c:\
  • Linux
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=zero.dat ; rm -f zero.dat  # haven't tried

Host OS (Mac)

  Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vdiskmanager -d xxx.vmdk  # Defrag
  Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vdiskmanager -k xxx.vmdk  # Shrink
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