On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:03 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:21:25 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > I read about vdiskmanager, but it does not offer that capability. > > And Vmware _does_ have this capability if you're running Windows as the > > Guest OS in Vmware. > > Have you installed vmware-tools into the guest OS? Once you do this, and > run them, you can shrink disk files, provided you did not create them as > flat files.
Er.. No I've not done that yet as Based on what I read, it's not possible. VMware-Tools will do that for Windows Guest OS though and I've tried it and it works great. Linux Guest OS is something else and seems like it's only for SVGA graphhics IIRC. But Yeah.. I'll install it and let you know. PS: In the end, all I did was fire up the 2.3G Gentoo under livecd Prepared another instance of Gentoo under LiveCD as another VM, mounted /mnt/gentoo and did tar -cf /mnt/gentoo . | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "tar -xzvf - -C /mnt/gentoo" It went well. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:33:38 up 20:09, 5 users, load average: 2.08, 0.74, 0.51 -- [email protected] mailing list
