Under Ubuntu, compress VirtualBox's VDI suffix for disk files

Environment: Virtual machine environment built in Ubuntu 14.04LTS, installed virtual machine for WinXP

With the constant use of virtual machine WinXP, disk space is increasing.

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For this scenario, the VDI disk files can be compressed, and the VirtualBox management tool vboxmanage can be used to compress the VDI-formatted disks.

$ sudo vboxmanage modifyvdi xc_xp.vdi--compact

0% ... 10% ... 20% ... 30% ... 40% ... 50% ... 60% ... 70% ... 80% ... 90% ... 100%

Look at the test results, it is possible to compress, but the amount of compression is not too large.

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Under Ubuntu, compress VirtualBox's VDI suffix for disk files