[Systers-dev] - Development Image

[kanika vats]

Hello Andy,
Hope you are doing great.Yes this is perfectly what I needed ;>.
Thanks
Kanika Vats

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:18 AM, Andrew Grover <andy.grover at gmail.com>wrote:

> > So now the VDI is ready to be used by other people and tested.Can anyone
> > suggest how to make it available to others?It is 5.8 gb in size.
>
> to make the vdi smaller, check this out:
>
> http://maketecheasier.com/shrink-your-virtualbox-vm/2009/04/06
>
> In short:
> 1) uninstall/clear all you can
> 2) run zerofree
> 3) Use VboxManage to make a smaller vdi
>
> After this, vdi should still be further compressible with gzip etc for
> another 2:1 savings.
>
> Hope this is useful -- Andy
>
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Best Regards
Kanika Vats