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Chapter 11 Using Disks and Disk Drives

Defragment Virtual Disks

Likephysicaldiskdrives,virtualdiskscanbecomefragmented.Defragmentingdisks

rearrangesfiles,programs,andunusedspaceonthevirtualdisksothatprogramsrun

fasterandfilesopenmorequickly.

Beforeyoudefragmentavirtualdisk,makesureyouhaveadequatefreeworkingspace

onthehostcomputer.Ifyourvi

rtualdiskiscontainedinasinglefile,forexample,you

needfreespaceequaltothesizeofthevirtualdiskfile.Othervirtualdisk

configurationsrequirelessfreespace.

Makesurethevirtualdiskisnotmapped(onWindowsguests)ormounted(onLinux

guests).Youcannotdefragmentavi

rtualdiskwhileitismappedormounted.

Defragmentingdoesnotreclaimunusedspaceonavirtualdisk.Toreclaimunused

space,compactthedisk.See“CompactaVirtualDisk”onpage 240.

To defragment a virtual disk

1Runadiskdefragmentationutilityinsidetheguestoperatingsystem.

Forexample,inavirtualmachinewithaWindowsXPgues

toperatingsyste

m,use

theWindowsXPDiskDefragmentertoolfromwithinthevirtualmachine.

Defragmentingdiskscantakeconsiderable time.

2Ifthevirtualdiskis“growable”ratherthanpreallocated,defragmentitbyusing

theWorkstationdefragmentationtool:

a Selectthevirtualmachine.

bMakesurethevirtualmachineispoweredoff.

c ChooseVM>Settings.

ntheHardwaretab,sele

ctHardDisk,anddooneofthefollowing:

 OnLinuxhosts,clickDefragment.

 OnWindowshosts,clickUtilitiesandchooseDefragment.

eWhentheprocessisfinished,clickOK.

3Runadiskdefragmentationutilityonthehostcomputer.

Defragmentingdiskscantakeconsiderable time.

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