One of my VMs filled up with tens of GB of garbage log entries. After deleting them, I need to compact the VM's virtual disk using the tutorial at https://vladimir-ivanov.net/how-to-comp ... file-size/ .
Here's the `showhdinfo` output:
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vboxmanage showhdinfo '/home/monkey/VirtualBox VMs/packer-ubuntu-16.04-amd64_1490228590884_50286/packer-ubuntu-16.04-amd64-disk1.vmdk'
UUID: 3da459f3-a35c-4d63-8198-1ca8d029fb91
Parent UUID: base
State: created
Type: normal (base)
Location: /home/monkey/VirtualBox VMs/packer-ubuntu-16.04-amd64_1490228590884_50286/packer-ubuntu-16.04-amd64-disk1.vmdk
Storage format: VMDK
Format variant: dynamic default
Capacity: 81920 MBytes
Size on disk: 1836 MBytes
Encryption: disabled
In use by VMs: packer-ubuntu-16.04-amd64_1490228590884_50286 (UUID: 8b49ecd5-239c-4143-a12b-803620d6850f) [base (UUID: be5f79ae-3680-4a68-9bc3-b936abd426d5)]
Child UUIDs: bd86a93c-0ea6-45ee-8caa-e532927bedaa
35717a4a-a575-4d5f-80c6-b7e7647a24f4
57686342-0aa9-467f-9485-852b37d84b5b