#OS X VM SLEEPIMAGE SOFTWARE#
#OS X VM SLEEPIMAGE WINDOWS 7#

And I have the fastest plate hdd available - 7200 rpm, a lot of cache. While stopping the swapping in the virtual machine can help, it doesn't fix the problem. It just can't keep up with both machines (the host and the virtual).

#OS X VM SLEEPIMAGE WINDOWS 7#

I was using VMWare Fusion with one Windows XP and one Windows 7 installation for quite a while.

The most common thing to do is get a virtual machine. When everyone around you is using MS Office, you have to use it too. Don't even get me started on OpenOffice, iWork and all the copycats. And it deleted one of my presentations (while presenting it !!!). The ribbon interface is so ugly on Mac, the menus so different.

#OS X VM SLEEPIMAGE SOFTWARE#

There is however one piece of software which even though it runs on OS X, I want on Windows. And it's software that is custom, specific and generally cannot be changed for another software. This would mean that there's software that is only made for Windows.

While the OS is awesome, it's not the most popular one.

' VBoxManage modifyhd /fullpath/to/windowsdisk.vdi -compact'.

Compacting the virtual disk (.vdi) is done with this command (the command comes with VirtualBox) (case-sensitive):.

It is done with sdelete - a free windows software by SysInternals (you remember these guys? Mark Russinovich?). Now this is unnecessary with VMWare and Parallels.

Defragment the VMs drive (this step is always important regardless of the virtualization software).

The biggest issue is that compacting the image is weirdly done VirtualBox is great, because it it's free, but it has many quirks - not that good integration on copy/paste, files, shortcuts and so on. My Computer -> Preferences -> System Restore (there's a slider in XP). Last time I saved 2.79 GB from this folder. It works similarly to OmniDiskSweeper and Disk Inventory X: I can safely use the 8gb space until my laptop goes to sleep. With it I found the /private/var/vm/sleepimage file (8gb) - keeps the data when the laptop goes to sleep. This is another type of program - it says how much disk is used by any folder, so it's easy to find the bigger users of space: It definitely will find stuff that you missed. Now, 120GB is definitely enough, but this is my primary machine, and I'm doing several different kinds of things on it, so I need space for all the projects.ДЇirst I run automatic tools like CleanMyMacВ (free): I have one of the fastest SSD drives, but unfortunately didn't have the heart to buy the 240Gb, but the 120GB version.

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