Clean up a Virtual
Machine
You can perform a
manual or automated cleanup of certain virtual machines to free up space on
your Mac. The cleanup compacts and defragments the virtual machine.
To perform a manual cleanup,
shut down or power off the virtual machine. You cannot perform the manual
cleanup while the virtual machine is powered on or suspended.
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.
- Compacts the virtual machine and returns freed space to your Mac.Only Windows virtual machines return freed space to your Mac.
- Defragments the virtual machine.
- 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.
Disk cleanup is not supported
in the following situations.
- The virtual hard disk uses a FAT32, FAT, or exFAT file system.
- The virtual hard disk uses a preallocated disk format.
- Select .
- Select a virtual machine in theVirtual Machine Librarywindow and clickSettings.
- Under System Settings in theSettingswindow, clickGeneral.
- Select a cleanup option.ManualClickClean 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.AutomatedSelectClean up disks after shutting down virtual machine.Fusion cleans up the virtual machine every time the virtual machine is shut down.