Compact VDI in 2.1.2 still not working.

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pcmedic
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Compact VDI in 2.1.2 still not working.

Post by pcmedic »

Trying to compact a VDI and I get:

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C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox>vboxmanage modifyhd c:\docs\virtualbox\vdi\winxp.vdi compact
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.1.2
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

Error: Shrink hard disk operation is not implemented!

C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox>
I know a work around but this function should work if the docs say that it is implemented in this version.
garyng2000
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Post by garyng2000 »

I believe some where in the document said it is removed.

clonehd so far works for me, though the UUID of the HD image changed, doesn't seem to have any impact so far(my XP client still doesn't need to reactivate).
pcmedic
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Post by pcmedic »

Where did you find it removed? The option for it still exists in the help screen. If that's the case there is some inefficient programming going on here.
abcuser
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Post by abcuser »

This was first broken by version 2.1.0. I haven't found out there is some documentation that this will be removed.
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