VirtualBox

One of the great things about VirtualBox is that it allows you to open up, mount, and run any hard drive from the other 3 major manufactures. VMWare, Microsoft, and Parallels. However one of the bad things is that there are no automated utilities that just make them work like some of the manufactures provide. And a common issue that I have always run into, especially when converting from VMWare to VirtualBox is this error. ...

Often times I have run into the situation where I need to share a VM image with a co-worker or store as a base starting point. Case in point today I needed to create a SharePoint 2010 on Windows 2008 R2 image for some classes and development I will be doing in the next few weeks. After getting done with the base install I was left with a large footprint on my hard disk of the virtual hard drive that I know could be reduced in size. So here are the steps I took to reduce the size of the virtual hard drive. ...