I installed Windows 7 Vanilla recently in a VM because I decided that it will be easier to do installations by copying the partition with updated Windows 7 to another HDD because the .iso image is outdated. I installed Windows 7 SP1, updated it, cleaned the unnecessary files and then I noticed the size of the .vmdk file is 49.1 GB on host while the guest OS only occupies 21.3 GB, I even mapped this virtual drive and it shows the same data. I am using dynamical allocation and the max capacity of the virtual drive could be 1 TB.
I don't know why is the .vmdk file more than twice as big for no reason and would really like to find out why.
I don't know why is the .vmdk file more than twice as big for no reason and would really like to find out why.