StarWind Software

Hello forum,

converted a dd/raw image of a Win2000 based systen (entire hdd with 2 partitions) successfully to vmdk and started Win2000 in VirtualBox

However the final vmdk is too big (as well the dd/raw of course)

Question
Is there a way to have Starwind Converter shrinked the VMDK (are are a lot of unsused blocks in the dd/raw image) ?


Thank you very much!

Joe

Welcome to StarWind Forum. Sadly, StarWind V2V converter does not shrink the disks. You could try shrinking the VMDK as described here though https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1002019 and http://woshub.com/shrinking-vmdk-virtua ... ware-esxi/.

Thank you very much Yaroslav for the promt feedback (with alternate solutions).

As for me, I would appreciate it very much, if this feature could be integrated into Starwind Converter.


Regards,
Joe

Greetings Joe,

You are always welcome. Sadly, this involves manipulations on the OS level and I am not entirely sure if that is related to the Converter.
I will file the feature request though.

yaroslav (staff) wrote: I will file the feature request though.

Wow.. thank you very much Yaroslav!

Thank YOU for the feature request and making the solution better
Have a great day.

yaroslav (staff) wrote:Thank YOU for the feature request and making the solution better
Have a great day.

Hello again,

Do you know, if this feature request managed to land on the ToDo-list?

Thank's a lot!

Yes, it is, but, sadly, no realistic ETA so far.
As a temporary workaround, you can shrink the VMDK as described https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1002019.