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Faster Trimming & Compacting of Hyper-V Ubuntu VMs

A while ago I described how to compact an Ubuntu VHDX running on Hyper-V using the sfill command. Running sfill, however, can take hours. Luckily, there is a much faster alternative. Ubuntu Trim and Hyper-V Ubuntu running in a Hyper-V virtual machine has been supporting the trim command since version 14.04 (details). The OS issues […]

Compacting Client Hyper-V VHDX Files

Virtual hard disks have the same tendency to grow in size as regular disks have to fill up. Deduplication is a great way to battle this, but unfortunately it is not available for Windows 8 Client Hyper-V. I know that hacks are available describing how to transfer the relevant DLLs from Server 2012 but I […]

Eating Microsoft's Dog Food – A Self-Experiment With Windows 7, Part 2: Installation

In the first article of this mini-series I described how I prepared my work laptop for the installation of Windows 7 x64 beta 1 into a virtual hard disk (VHD) file. This post covers the installation itself. At this point you may (rightly) ask: “Why yet another description of this process?” The answer is that […]

Eating Microsoft's Dog Food – A Self-Experiment With Windows 7, Part 1: Preparation

After reading a lot about the speed and stability of Windows 7 (beta 1), I decided it was time for me not only to use it for real work, but also to move from 32-bit Windows to a 64-bit installation. This mini-series serves as a documentation of the steps I took and the lessons I […]

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Faster Trimming & Compacting of Hyper-V Ubuntu VMs

Compacting Client Hyper-V VHDX Files

Eating Microsoft's Dog Food – A Self-Experiment With Windows 7, Part 2: Installation

Eating Microsoft's Dog Food – A Self-Experiment With Windows 7, Part 1: Preparation