Lately I moved from VMWare Server to VMWare Workstation 6.0 beta which is great because you can copy files much easier, no need to copy files from ip-address to ip-address address, just copy and paste files to the virtual machines desktop.
About two weeks ago in the US I experienced something strange. I was building a media deployment point in BDD 2007 Deployment WorkBench for a custom Vista image with applications and run out of disk space on my laptop which is strange because I use an external disk drive for my virtuals and I was absolutely sure to have something like 10GB free disk space, I checked disk space a couple of days before
When I checked my free disk space now it was 900MB!
So what else can you do besides cleaning… Empty the recycle bin, not much in it. Look at you temp folder in your profile, check the size, 9GB!!!!! WOW, do I serve as a public ftp server for the rest o the company or worse, the Internet?
Then I looked at the “C:\Users\rmolenaar\AppData\Local\Temp\VMwareDnD�  folder, some directories and one directory with my previous Media Deployment Point attempt inside (about 4GB). That one actually failed. I was sure about copying it just before I left the building but I did not see anything on my desktop when I was back in the hotel. The only thing I saw when I resumed from standby was a copying folder which I thought I did by accident so I closed it.
What happens when you copy files from virtual machine to your desktop is that VMWare first copies all stuff to a temporary location and after that it copies the files to your desktop. So when you copy a 4GB Media Deployment Point you need 8GB disk space.
Anyway when I came home I also saw that my deployment virtual machine size increased with quite a bit. So I looked in my temp folder on the virtual machine “C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp\VMwareDnD� and I saw the same thing.
I don’t know if this is a beta issue but for all those VMWare 6.0 beta guys out there, check your temp folders when you move a lot of files from Physical to Virtuals and back
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So this is your WOW ??
Send it to Microsoft and maybe you become a winner
Rob,
Maybe you can use an symbolic Link to redirect that data to your external HDD. See the blog from kevin called “How to relocate your Groove 2007 files to another disk” here on buit.org on how to do this.
see ya
Jeroen
Stefan,
I have noticed the same thing a week ago.
see ya
bjorn