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Shrinking virtual disks on OSX VMWare fusion via CLI
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| #!/bin/sh | |
| # remove vm snapshots | |
| # change your path /path_to_your/disc.vmdk | |
| # | |
| # source: http://snipurl.com/maggini_vmdisc_osx | |
| cd '/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library' | |
| # defrag | |
| ./vmware-vdiskmanager -d path_to_your/disc.vmdk | |
| # shrink | |
| ./vmware-vdiskmanager -k path_to_your/disc.vmdk |
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Tested with OSX 10.11 El Capitan - VMware Fusion 8.0.2 and VM OS X 10.11.vmdk