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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