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		<title>A year in review: What are our readers looking for?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Our readers are primarily asking questions like:

How can I free up disk space, on Windows, and on ext4, ext3 on Ubuntu and Linux, within virtual disks like vmdk, vhd and vdi?
Where can I find the best virtual appliances/ Top 10 virtual appliances?
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paule1s</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the Top 10 posts for Q1 2009, the numbers of views are in parentheses.

Defragment Ubuntu, Fedora, ext3, ext4 (2247)
Most popular VMWare Virtual Appliances for IT Administrators (2186)
VirtualBox &#8211; setup, share, shrink, convert (842)
How to convert a VMWare VMDK to a Microsoft, Xen VHD? (810)
How does shrink with vmware disk manager work? (614)
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		<title>Top 10 referrers for Q1 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paule1s</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the Top 12 referrers to our blog over the past 3 months, the numbers of referrals are in parentheses.

http://pro-linux.de/berichte/ext4/ext4.html (765)
http://networksecuritytoolkit.org/nst/index.html (566)
http://dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=9653 (149)
http://polishlinux.org/apps/cli/ext4-defragmentation-with-e4defrag/ (111)
http://kakku.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/virtualbox-shrink-your-vdi-images-space-occupied-disk-size/ (101)
http://stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=http://sharevm.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/most-popular-vmware-virtual-appliances-for-it-administrators/ (84)
http://techblog.41concepts.com/2008/03/31/shrink-your-windows-disk-image-on-wmware-fusion-mac/ (67)
http://thedarkmaster.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/vmware-virtual-machine-to-virtual-box-conversion-how-to/ (66)
http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2005/07/30/445621.aspx (66)
http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2007/01/21/determining-file-fragmentation-on-ext3-file-systems/ (61)
http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2009/01/updated-homebrew-esx-hardware-list.html (52)
http://blog.rightscale.com/2009/01/09/amazon-launches-ec2-console/ (53)

Thank you for the referrals. Hope the content is meaningful for our readers
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the Top 12 referrers to our blog over the past 3 months, the numbers of referrals are in parentheses.

http://pro-linux.de/berichte/ext4/ext4.html (546) 
http://dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=9653 (342) 
http://networksecuritytoolkit.org/nst/index.html (110) 
http://polishlinux.org/apps/cli/ext4-defragmentation-with-e4defrag/ (59) 
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/189804?tstart=0 (49) 
http://techblog.41concepts.com/2008/03/31/shrink-your-windows-disk-image-on-wmware-fusion-mac/ (42) 
http://blog.rightscale.com/2009/01/09/amazon-launches-ec2-console/ (37) 
http://wordpress.com/tag/vhd/ (33) 
http://wordpress.com/tag/vmdk/ (32) 
http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2009/01/updated-homebrew-esx-hardware-list.html (32) 
http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2005/07/30/445621.aspx (32) 
http://kakku.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/virtualbox-shrink-your-vdi-images-space-occupied-disk-size/ (31) 

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		<title>Tool to find out how much will vmdk, vhd shrink on Windows, Ubuntu</title>
		<link>http://blog.sharevm.com/2009/01/12/tool-to-find-out-how-much-will-vmdk-vhd-shrink-on-windows-ubuntu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
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Now you can download and run vmsi to determine whether it is worth shrinking that VM on your disk. We are releasing vmsi for both the Windows NTFS and Ubuntu platforms. Please read the Release Notes to understand the current limitations.
Let us know how it works, please send email to  support at sharevm dot com
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		<title>Top 10 Posts and Searches for Q4 2008</title>
		<link>http://blog.sharevm.com/2009/01/08/top-10-posts-and-searches-for-q4-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paule1s</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top Ten Posts for Q4 2008

Defragment Ubuntu, Fedora, ext3, ext4
How to convert a VMWare VMDK to a Microsoft, Xen VHD
VirtualBox &#8211; setup, share, shrink, convert
How does shrink with vmware disk manager work?
Virtual Machine Disk Image Compression
Compressing Virtual Images
rsync vm, vhd for backup, disaster recovery, ec2
How to launch first AMI on Amazon EC2?
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		<title>Who is feeling the pain for shrinking VM&#8217;s?</title>
		<link>http://blog.sharevm.com/2009/01/07/who-is-feeling-the-pain-for-shrinking-vms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paule1s</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From informal surveys conducted with ex-colleagues and developers in other companies, and the inquiries we are receiving, the picture that has emerged in my mind is that shrinking VM&#8217;s is a need for

Developers who can store a limited number of VMs on their personal workstations/laptops.
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		<title>Shrinking VM snapshots of builds and releases</title>
		<link>http://blog.sharevm.com/2009/01/05/shrinking-vms-development-lifecycle-builds-and-releases/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sharevm.com/2009/01/05/shrinking-vms-development-lifecycle-builds-and-releases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paule1s</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The traffic on our blog tells us that there is intense interest in the topic of shrinking virtual machines &#8211; vmdk&#8217;s vhd&#8217;s, vdi&#8217;s, to recover free space and improve performance. Our offer to release a software tool to let you view how much storage you could recover has brought several responses from people who are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sharevm.com&blog=5578815&post=631&subd=sharevm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How much will the VM shrink?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RS</dc:creator>
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Shrinking a VM today is a time consuming process: zero out the free blocks, defrag, use vmware&#8217;s tools to shrink it partition by parition. I wanted a tool which would tell me after doing all that how much would it help. This turned out to be a complicated process as you have to find the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sharevm.com&blog=5578815&post=592&subd=sharevm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VirtualBox &#8211; setup, share, shrink, convert</title>
		<link>http://blog.sharevm.com/2008/12/17/virtualbox-intro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paule1s</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why use VirtualBox?

VMware Workstation vs. Sun XVM VirtualBox
Switching from VMWare to VirtualBox &#8211; A Primer

 How to setup?

Using VirtualBox to run Ubuntu

How to share?

Share your VirtualBox VM across different OS&#8217;s
Windows Vista guest and Ubuntu host

How to shrink images?

VirtualBox &#8211; Shrink your VDI images
Shrinking VDI file with NTFS partition

How to convert?

from VirtualBox .vdi to VMWare  .vmdk formats

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