Cleans up the size of a vmdk file that shrinks the MacOS system in a VMware virtual machine

The main standard poor cock silk one, although has been envious MBP, but suffer from a limited number of meters, just play MacOS in the virtual machine. (I will not tell you my notebook i5+120ssd+500hhd+12g memory, run MacOS Virtual machine A little card, seemingly still can not get rid of me is poor cock silk fact, hey)

Today the virtual machine in the Mavericks upgrade to Yosemite, ready to see the new features of iOS8, develop a notification center app to play, who knows the virtual machine vmdk files from 20G soared to the 38g,120g SSD decisive explosion, Although the upgrade is complete, Xcode has no room to install.

After a degree of Niang, we all said that after upgrading Yosemite hard disk space will become smaller, will not become larger, I should be the case of VMware's growth mechanism caused.

Have to continue to degree Niang, but everyone's strategy is just talk about the Windows shrinkage method of VMware, Wood has MacOS. Had to look for Google after the wall, or outside the wall to force, sure enough to find some useful raiders, was strange method pits n times, finally found a very useful command, in this selfless dedication to everyone ~

Open the terminal in your virtual machine, enter:sudo/library/application\ support/vmware\ tools/vmware-tools-cli disk shrink/ , then enter your computer's password and wait for it to complete.

Note: The disk on which the virtual machine is located is best reserved for more than 20G of free space, and I have several times because of insufficient disk space, resulting in shrinkage failure.

As for the effect, no picture no truth, look at the picture!!!

Cleans up the size of a vmdk file that shrinks the MacOS system in a VMware virtual machine