Finally, you can find out that the size of. Step 4: Then wait for a while until a popup window prompts that the disk was successfully compacted. Step 3: On Hardware tab, click Hard Disk option in the left pane and the click Compact button in the right pane. Step 2: Click VM tab and select Settings option to open Virtual Machine Settings window (Shortcut: Ctrl + D).
Step 1: Open VMware Workstation application and open a virtual machine (Shortcut: Ctrl + O). So, you can use it to shrink the size of virtual machine disk and here is what to do. VMware Workstation provides us with a feature that allows us to compress disks to reclaim the unused space. Method 1: Shrink virtual machine disk size by Compacting disk