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Error when trying to compact virtual hard disk

Posted: 20. Jan 2017, 17:47
by emil78
I have Windows 7 x64 and when i tried to compact the kali linux virtual hard disk i get error message:

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C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe modifyhd --compact "e:\Virtual Machines\Kali-Linux-2016.2-vbox-amd64\Kali-Linux-2016.2-vbox-amd64-disk1.vmdk"
0%...
Progress state: VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED
VBoxManage.exe: error: Compact medium operation for this format is not implemented yet!
What this error mean?

Re: Error when trying to compact virtual hard disk

Posted: 20. Jan 2017, 18:07
by scottgus1
Looks like it means what it says. See the last line?

Re: Error when trying to compact virtual hard disk

Posted: 20. Jan 2017, 18:07
by Perryg
It means that it does not work for anything other than VDI files at this time.
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.h ... -modifyvdi