I have migrated a Parallels VM from an M1 Mac (Not compatible) to VirtualBox. Renamed the file as an HDD VM.
The VM runs fine but I'm unable to compress it with the VBoxMange.exe modify medium disk <Path to VM> --compact.
Am I missing something or do I need to convert the VM to another format.
Cannot compact HDD (Parallels VM)
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Re: Cannot compact HDD (Parallels VM)
From the user manual section that describes "VBoxManage modifymedium --compact" :-
You should clone the hdd to VDI: nobody other than Parallels has much use for ".hdd" format.User manual section 8.22 wrote: Please note that compacting is currently only available for VDI images.
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Re: Cannot compact HDD (Parallels VM)
I've tried cloning, but the result is an HDD file again. I cannot see how to clone to a VDImpack wrote:From the user manual section that describes "VBoxManage modifymedium --compact" :-
You should clone the hdd to VDI: nobody other than Parallels has much use for ".hdd" format.User manual section 8.22 wrote: Please note that compacting is currently only available for VDI images.
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Re: Cannot compact HDD (Parallels VM)
What command were you trying? There's a lot of available options in vboxmanage https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08. ... lonemedium
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Re: Cannot compact HDD (Parallels VM)
My error, I was trying through the VirtualBox GUI. Have downloaded CloneVDI now, but thanks for the heads up on the CLI options.
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Re: Cannot compact HDD (Parallels VM)
The GUI version (i.e. File|Virtual Media Manager) has options to select the output format too.FrankNicklin wrote:My error, I was trying through the VirtualBox GUI.