[VPC] Compressing VHD files

re: [VPC] Compressing VHD files

sunil — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:25:08 GMT

Yes it's worked for me. Mine vhd was 9.5GB and am not able to write to any dvd. As per above command my vhd size has been reduced to 4.2GB which I can write to a DVD.

Thanks a lot

re: [VPC] Compressing VHD files

Theodosios — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:30:00 GMT

Nice!

re: [VPC] Compressing VHD files

Scott Vieth — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:07:47 GMT

7-Zip can be very fast OR very slow. If you try and push it, especially with large dictionary sizes which add to its memory needs, it can crawl.

I've found its "Fastest" setting though is competitive with the pay tools out there, but for that extra couple of compression bytes, it can bog.

re: [VPC] Compressing VHD files

Steve — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:53:09 GMT

I've been struggling with enormous and unwieldy images in VPC and VSS as well, and we've been compressing them with various utilities as well.

This morning I installed a freeware compression utility on a system (ZipGenius), and am trying to compress a 14Gb vhd file using the 7-zip format and maximum compression.

The compression has been running for at least a couple of hours now, on a very fast machine, and is at 46% done.

Is the 7zip format very slow for you ?

re: [VPC] Compressing VHD files

Page Brooks — Sat, 07 May 2005 16:14:00 GMT

Great post! I was facing the same issue! :)