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Clean Up a Virtual Machine
You can shrink and defragment certain virtual machines to free up space on your Mac.
When you delete files from your virtual machine, Fusion does not return the space to your Mac. Cleaning
up the virtual machine performs the following operations:
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Shrinks the virtual machine and returns freed space to your Mac.
NOTE Only Windows virtual machines return freed space to your Mac.
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Defragments the virtual machine.
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Consolidates any unconsolidated snapshot files left on the virtual machine.
Unconsolidated snapshot files can be left on the virtual machine when manually deleting a snapshot
fails.
Prerequisites
Shut down or power off the virtual machine. You cannot change the setting while the virtual machine is
powered on or suspended.
Procedure
1 Select Window > Virtual Machine Library.
2 Select a virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Library window and click Settings.
3 Under System Settings in the Settings window, click General.
4 Click Clean Up Virtual Machine.
This option is only available when a Windows virtual machine has disk space to reclaim, or when any
virtual machine has unconsolidated snapshot files.
Fusion displays a progress dialog box as it cleans up the virtual machine.
Add an Existing Virtual Hard Disk
You can add an existing virtual hard disk to a virtual machine. You can copy or move the disk to your
virtual machine, or share it between virtual machines.
CAUTION Moving the virtual hard disk can break other virtual machines that are using the virtual hard disk,
because this is the equivalent of removing the hard disk from one physical computer and installing it in
another.
Procedure
1 Select Window > Virtual Machine Library.
2 Select a virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Library window and click Settings.
3 Click Add Device.
4 Click Existing Hard Disk.
5 Click Add Device.
6 In the Open dialog, navigate to the location of the existing .vmdk hard disk file.
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