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find_old_vms

find_old_vms is a tool to find old VM’s (vmdk’s, vhd’s) on your Windows hard drives that are older than a given number of days.

Usage

find_old_vms in_this_directory_tree older than_days

Windows XP Download. The script uses atime (latest file access time), which is not supported on Windows Vista and Windows 7.

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vmsi (BETA Release)

`vmsi’ is a tool to determine if a virtual image can be effectively shrunk. It understands both vmdk and vhd formats. (Please read Beta Release Notes below.)

Usage

vmsi <options>

options:
      <-i VMDK/VHD>    required: virtual disk image to analyse
      [-a]                                optional: show additional information
      [-v]                                optional: debug, verbose
      [-h]                               optional: print this help information

Windows Beta Download supported for NTFS on Windows XP,  2003 and Vista.

Linux Beta Download supported for Ubuntu 8 and other Linuxes having a matching userland.

Support? Questions?  Feedback? Please email support at sharevm dot com

Beta Release Notes

vmdk

• Understands sparse and non-sparse vmdks
• Does not understand compressed vmdks for streaming
• Does not understand ESX vmdks
• Does not understand cloned & snapshotted vms

vhd

• Does not understand cloned & snapshotted vms

Disk Partitions

• Understands MBR based primary partitions only. It currently does not understand extended partitions
• Currently No support for GPT