[Solved] Reducing Size of guest uninstalling software

[gboswellsac]

I have added software to my guest to the point that it is > 5.8 GB. I went and removed lots of bloated software (3 GB worth), cleaned out recycle bin, ran check disk, defragmented the guest and the guest vdi still says 5.8 GB. What do I have to do to get the vdi down to the size of the OS without the bloat ware?

Thanks
Boz

[vbox4me2]

Read the all about VDI's tutorial via the FAQ.

[gboswellsac]

Thanks, the FAQ was great , RTFM works. I was successful in using sdelete -c C: and rebooting with check disk active. (I had already defraged before starting all this). Running the VboxManage ... yeilded the following what am I missing?

BozMac-2:/Users/gboswell/Library/VirtualBox/VDI root# VBoxManage modifyvdi "XP Pro".vdi compact
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.2.4
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

ERROR: Could not find a hard disk with location 'XP Pro.vdi' in the media registry ('/var/root/Library/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml')
Details: code VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80bb0001), component VirtualBox, interface IVirtualBox, callee nsISupports
Context: "FindHardDisk(Bstr(FilenameOrUuid), hardDisk.asOutParam())" at line 415 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp
BozMac-2:/Users/gboswell/Library/VirtualBox/VDI root#

[baf]

Run it as yourself. Not root.

[gboswellsac]

As Myself same results:

BozMac-2:~/Library/VirtualBox/VDI gboswell$ VBoxManage modifyvdi "XP Pro".vdi compact
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.2.4
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

ERROR: Could not find a hard disk with location 'XP Pro.vdi' in the media registry ('/Users/gboswell/Library/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml')
Details: code VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80bb0001), component VirtualBox, interface IVirtualBox, callee nsISupports
Context: "FindHardDisk(Bstr(FilenameOrUuid), hardDisk.asOutParam())" at line 415 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp
BozMac-2:~/Library/VirtualBox/VDI gboswell$ ll
total 39643216
-rw-r--r-- 1 gboswell gboswell 6264226816 Feb 4 2009 Fedora 8.vdi
-rw-r--r-- 1 gboswell gboswell 2508988578 Aug 21 15:49 Fedora 8.vdi.zip
-rw------- 1 gboswell gboswell 28377600 Aug 21 20:12 NewHardDisk1.vdi
-rw-r--r-- 1 gboswell gboswell 7010820608 Aug 21 20:12 XP Pro.vdi
-rw-r--r-- 1 gboswell gboswell 4484896449 Aug 21 15:43 XP Pro.vdi.zip
BozMac-2:~/Library/VirtualBox/VDI gboswell$

[Perryg]

"XP Pro".vdi compact should be "XP Pro.vdi" compact
Notice the placement of the last "

[gboswellsac]

I had tried that before but never know might work but didn't


BozMac-2:~/Library/VirtualBox/VDI gboswell$ VBoxManage modifyvdi "XP Pro.vdi" compact
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.2.4
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

ERROR: Could not find a hard disk with location 'XP Pro.vdi' in the media registry ('/Users/gboswell/Library/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml')
Details: code VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80bb0001), component VirtualBox, interface IVirtualBox, callee nsISupports
Context: "FindHardDisk(Bstr(FilenameOrUuid), hardDisk.asOutParam())" at line 415 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp
BozMac-2:~/Library/VirtualBox/VDI gboswell$

Here is the content of the VirtualBox.xml"

Code: Select all

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- Automatically converted from version '1.6-macosx' -->
<!-- Automatically converted from version '1.5-macosx' -->
<!-- Automatically converted from version '1.4-macosx' -->
<!-- Automatically converted from version '1.3-macosx' -->
<!-- Sun xVM VirtualBox Global Configuration -->
<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings" version="1.7-macosx">
  <Global>
    <ExtraData>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/RegistrationData" value="0047006c0065006e006e00200042006f007300770065006c006c007c00670062006f007300770065006c006c0073006100630040007900610068006f006f002e0063006f006d007c006e006f19c5c3ca"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/SuppressMessages" value="confirmInputCapture,remindAboutMouseIntegrationOff,remindAboutMouseIntegrationOn,confirmGoingFullscreen"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastWindowPostion" value="52,210,770,550"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/UpdateCheckCount" value="49"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/UpdateDate" value="1 d, 2009-08-25"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastVMSelected" value="{77ca4367-cbe9-4ba3-95d5-c67646f1d6fc}"/>
    </ExtraData>
    <MachineRegistry>
      <MachineEntry uuid="{53f3874a-715e-47d4-8aa8-62215c7acae2}" src="Machines/Fedora 8/Fedora 8.xml"/>
      <MachineEntry uuid="{77ca4367-cbe9-4ba3-95d5-c67646f1d6fc}" src="Machines/XP Pro/XP Pro.xml"/>
    </MachineRegistry>
    <MediaRegistry>
      <HardDisks>
        <HardDisk uuid="{8a0c7b52-28a7-4c4d-a3d3-1b898c107926}" location="/Users/gboswell/Library/VirtualBox/VDI/Fedora 8.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal">
          <HardDisk uuid="{d2ea23f2-ccef-422c-97af-af8756360f8e}" location="/Users/gboswell/Library/VirtualBox/Machines/Fedora 8/Snapshots/{d2ea23f2-ccef-422c-97af-af8756360f8e}.vdi" format="VDI"/>
        </HardDisk>
        <HardDisk uuid="{457ccf2a-8447-44d3-a493-6be27e425827}" location="/Users/gboswell/Library/VirtualBox/VDI/XP Pro.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal">
          <HardDisk uuid="{92603016-3e6e-4b06-9465-3eadf7689d5a}" location="/Users/gboswell/Library/VirtualBox/Machines/XP Pro/Snapshots/{92603016-3e6e-4b06-9465-3eadf7689d5a}.vdi" format="VDI"/>
        </HardDisk>
        <HardDisk uuid="{9b036641-3c56-43e7-a206-01ad40099716}" location="VDI/NewHardDisk1.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal">
          <HardDisk uuid="{d7fb2d0f-c951-433f-94a6-b27524883a22}" location="/Users/gboswell/Library/VirtualBox/Machines/XP Pro/Snapshots/{d7fb2d0f-c951-433f-94a6-b27524883a22}.vdi" format="VDI"/>
        </HardDisk>
      </HardDisks>
      <DVDImages>
        <Image uuid="{a8d0648c-6a3b-4097-bc2d-a5cb7473211a}" location="/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso"/>
      </DVDImages>
      <FloppyImages/>
    </MediaRegistry>
    <NetserviceRegistry>
      <DHCPServers>
        <DHCPServer networkName="HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet0" IPAddress="192.168.56.2" networkMask="255.255.255.0" lowerIP="192.168.56.3" upperIP="192.168.56.255" enabled="1"/>
      </DHCPServers>
    </NetserviceRegistry>
    <USBDeviceFilters/>
    <SystemProperties defaultMachineFolder="Machines" defaultHardDiskFolder="HardDisks" defaultHardDiskFormat="VDI" remoteDisplayAuthLibrary="VRDPAuth" webServiceAuthLibrary="VRDPAuth" HWVirtExEnabled="false" LogHistoryCount="3"/>
  </Global>
</VirtualBox>

Go ahead tell me I'm doing something stupid or whatever .....

Mod Edit: Please use code blocks for long or log files.

[Perryg]

Nope nothing stupid, just sometimes you may need to give it the full and complete path to the file. Not that sure about MAC, but sometimes it must be complete.
"/Users/gboswell/Library/VirtualBox/VDI/XP Pro.vdi"

[gboswellsac]

You are the MAN/Person/Guru, the program went through 0%...10%....100% no errors. The size of the vdi is unchanged but I'm going to start all over again and if doesn't work I will install a new XP. Thank You Thank You for the help, yes and it was stupid, I should have tried the absolute path from looking at the error message. At least I can live with stupid for the moment, but next time I'm prepared. Thanks Again.
Boz