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In fully booted guest OS:

sudo apt-get install zerofree

Reboot guest OS, hold [Esc] on boot, and from Grub menu select Advanced, then Recovery Mode, then Root Console, and run:

zerofree /dev/sda
halt

Then in host OS, run:

vboxmanage modifymedium disk $VDI_FILENAME --compact
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