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shrink the vm
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Problem

The vm is continuously growing. Even when you free space ( from inside ) then the virtual disk will not change the size:

Solution

Inside the VM run that command:

cd ~
sudo cat /dev/zero > zero;sync;sleep 1;sudo rm zero

this it can take a while, since it can create a big file (more than 10min).

Turn off the vm.

Run this command from osx:

cd '/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library'
./vmware-vdiskmanager -d <path_to_your>/disc.vmdk
./vmware-vdiskmanager -k <path_to_your>/disc.vmdk
  • -d will run a defragmentation
  • -k will shrink the vm disk
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