On 2018-08-21 at 22:23:05 Allan wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 08:14:20 +0200 > "Erik P. Olsen" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2018-08-21 at 03:01:22 Allan wrote: > > > > > å Mon, 20 Aug 2018 15:18:05 +0200 > > > "Erik P. Olsen" <[email protected]> skrev: > > > > Unfortunately I have created too large a file to hold my virtual > > > > Win10 system. I want to recover some of the surplus disk area from > > > > the file. > > > > > > > > My host system is Fedora 28 and I thought I could export the > > > > virtual machine, create a new and smaller file and import the VM > > > > into this file. Is that doable or is there if possible a better > > > > method? > > > export and import doesn't change the VDI - it just copies it. > > > > That's exactly what I want to accomplish: copy the vdi file from a > > large linux file to a smaller. And my problem with export is that I > > don't see how I can specify where the output of the export process > > goes. I want it to go to a usb stick not to a file on my home dir. > > export gives you a 1:1 copy of what you have. There are no option > to make the new VDI of any new size. > > So what you should do is create a new VDI file with the size you want. > > Then in your Win VM, you need to clean up your partitions (defrag), and > then shrink the partition, so it is of same or smaller size than the new > VDI, so it can fit inside it. There are tools in Win to do this. > > After that I would use a Fedora VM (create one if you don't have one), > and attach both the Win VDI and the new VDI to it, and boot Fedora. > Then you can use dd to copy everything from Win VDI to new VDI. > > That shoul fix your problem. > > BTW you can move all your VDI's to wherever you want inside the Virtual > disk manager (GUI).
I wonder would it be possible to create a system image of the virtual windows 10 and then use this image to install it in a smaller VDI file? -- Erik _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
