Hi there,
I have been trialling VMware Fusion to consider purchasing it versus parallels or some other alternative. For some reason, on the odd occasion the VMDK file just expands RIDICULOUSLY without any explanation.
It is fine when I catch it in time, as I can shut down the VM and then run a "Disk Cleanup" from general settings however when I do not catch it in time, there is not enough space on my hard disk to perform this task. I then have to re-copy the VM from a manual backup I made usually weeks before. This is severely impacting my productivity and I may just end up using a windows machine instead if I cannot solve this problem.
Some specs:
Retina MacBook Pro (15")
i7 CPU
16GB RAM
256GB SSD
Before I started the VM this morning, the space occupied on the hard disk was 40GB
Roughly 6 Hours later, the hard disk was taking up 98GB
The Windows 7 Guest hdd reported an increase of about 80MB in this time
I am currently in a situation where I do not have enough free space on my MacBook HDD to perform a "Disk Cleanup" (button is greyed out)
I have attached the collected data retrieved via the help menu.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Yaniv