Eric,
I cannot explain why your VM is so large. I work at a SOC (Security Operations
Center), we have many VMs but the are actually small in disk size because they
are all specialized. But I can pass this on: we never create snapshots on a
running VM because that increases the disk size four fold, and we only keep the
two most recent snapShots because, yes, snapShots are large.
Check your log files on the VM, they should not account for much, but again,
because my group works with small VMs (80GB to 150GB typically) we clear out
log files on a regular basis if only to give ourselves a few hundred Megabytes
of so to free up.
Stephan
From: Eric Robinson <eric.robin...@psmnv.com>
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Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2017 11:57 PM
Subject: [VBox-users] Why is this VDI files so flipping huge?
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{}-->I have a Windows Server VM that has a 150GB OS disk (20 GB free) and no
other drives or volumes of any kind. Why is the VDI file 452GB in size? I
tried shrinking it with the Linux virtualbox commands, but no change. Why is
this file so much bigger than what Windows sees? I don’t know if it is
relevant, but I noticed that in Windows, the Virtual Disk Service is in a
stopped state. When I try to start it, it stops again after a moment with no
errors. -- Eric Robinson
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