Posted on this sub-forum and Open Source as not sure which is best option.
Following Parallels refusal to support PD6 in Mountain Lion exactly 1 year after purchase I decided I wasn’t prepared to shell out yet more cash for an upgrade. Following that decision I thought I would try VirtualBox and was pleasantly pleased with the results – works really well on the Mac with Windows 7 as the VM.
The only downside has been an inability to shrink/compress the virtual HD. To import Parallels PVM into VirtualBox one has to use VMware converter tool. This then leaves the VirtualBox VM as a VMDK file rather than the default VDI file. In the Windows environment one can use CloneVDI to shrink a VDI HD but there doesn’t appear to be a similar tool for the Mac Host. I have also not been able to come across any method for shrinking a VMDK file on a Mac Host. This being the case the VM file is bound to grow and grow with time. Has anyone else been able to overcome this issue?
Following Parallels refusal to support PD6 in Mountain Lion exactly 1 year after purchase I decided I wasn’t prepared to shell out yet more cash for an upgrade. Following that decision I thought I would try VirtualBox and was pleasantly pleased with the results – works really well on the Mac with Windows 7 as the VM.
The only downside has been an inability to shrink/compress the virtual HD. To import Parallels PVM into VirtualBox one has to use VMware converter tool. This then leaves the VirtualBox VM as a VMDK file rather than the default VDI file. In the Windows environment one can use CloneVDI to shrink a VDI HD but there doesn’t appear to be a similar tool for the Mac Host. I have also not been able to come across any method for shrinking a VMDK file on a Mac Host. This being the case the VM file is bound to grow and grow with time. Has anyone else been able to overcome this issue?
