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Reducing size of virtual machine ?
helo
I would like to share a custion virtual machine with turnkey linux comunity but over 2 days of mainly drupal development (and adding some packages) size of .vdi have grown to 4 gb (!!!)
Do you know how to reduce it, so that others might run it by them self and its resonable size, like 1gb lets say ?
i did all ready apt-get clean.
thanx for help
Replies (3)
googling around
Reply 1http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=908128#3
Well, its not appliance yet,
Reply 2Well, its not appliance yet, its just a hd of custom VM, but i hope one day it will be in a form of .iso
I all ready did packed it with zip, its down to 2.1 from 4.1
Problem is in too big HD i took on the start (default 8gb) but other wise it would be not possible mess up with big media files.
Later on im going to re-create it with smaller HD, all documentation is here:
http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/Tutturu-2009-03-alpha2_dev
More about the project you cane found here: http://tutturu.obin.org/
I all ready did packed it with zip, its down to 2.1 from 4.1
Problem is in too big HD i took on the start (default 8gb) but other wise it would be not possible mess up with big media files.
Later on im going to re-create it with smaller HD, all documentation is here:
http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/Tutturu-2009-03-alpha2_dev
More about the project you cane found here: http://tutturu.obin.org/
Ideas
Reply 3It's awesome that you have gotten development to the point where you are making an appliance!
A few ideas regarding your problem:
- Recreate VM: start over in a new VirtualBox instance and re-apply installation carefully. As a fringe benefit you'll be testing the installation documentation.
- Compress image with bzip2: I don't think VDI is very efficiently packaged. Probably not even compressed so there's a good chance you might get a reasonable compression ratio just using bzip2