On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:37:03 -0800, JonathanL
<JonathanL@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:
>I looks like that's what I'm going to need to do. I probably don't understand
>VM technology as well as I need to. When I created the new VM and installed
>XP, I told it to partition and create a HD of 60GB. Now I see this was way
>too big and not needed.
did you read my initial response regarding Partition Magic?
Quote:
>
>If I created another VM, installed XP, and during the install told it to
>partition or create a HD of 30GB, would the resulting VHD file be any smaller
>than the one I have with the 60GB HD? Or does that not make any difference,
>and the only thing that actually affects the size of the VHD file is all of
>the apps and data that you install in the guest OS of the VHD?
>
>Jonathan
>
Depends, if you use the default VHD, it's dynamically expanding,so no,
a 30GB or 60GB will be of the same initial size. A dynamically
expanding drive only expands as necessary.
The 30GB and 60GB will expand similarly, the difference will be if you
keep adding/modifying files, the 30GB will cap out at 30GB, the 60GB
will continue to expand to 60GB.
However, if you create fixed size disks, then they will take the full
amount of space immediately.
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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/