Vista - differencing VHDs grow in size

Hi all!

Why do my differencing virtual hard disk grow in size to an extent I
wouldn't have expected?

- After the first Startup and Shutdown: It's size jumps to 0.5GB
- After some hours of usage (using a vpn client, windows remote desktop an
internet explorer): It's size jumped once again to 4GB

My parent virtual pc hosts two hard virutal hard drives - drive c containing
at about 5GB and drive e containing at 5GB as well. For my child vhds i
created two differencing hard disks as well, whereas it's only drive c that
grows in size. Drive e keeps low (probably because I havn't used the programs
installed in drive e?!)

What can i do, to avoid that growth in size?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions and comments.

regards, reinhart

Properly the child's virtual memory file that is growing.
You could try a fixed size.

"jorgensen" wrote:
I didn't know that it is possible to set a fixed size for differencing vhds.

What is the virtual memory file?

regards,reinhart

>What is the virtual memory file?

It's the swap file. (pagefile.sys for Windows NT and above)

To set it as a specific size in XP, go into the control panel, System,
Advanced tab, performance settings button, advanced tab, then change
button on the bottom.

But that's only going to change things a bit, the OS and programs are
always changing files and that's why the size jumps on the C drive.

--
Bob Comer


On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:58:02 -0700, rgherzog
<rgherzog@xxxxxx> wrote: