Hi,
I'm moving a vm from a desktop to a laptop. I've read many things about cloning and exporting but the strange thing is that exporting using VB wizard generates a 4GB vda file when the clone is about 10GB. Is this only a compression applied to the vda?
Thanks
Why a .vda export is much lighter than a clone file?
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Re: Why a .vda export is much lighter than a clone file?
How much space is used inside the VDI? It can make a difference. And VXA is a compressed format.
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