VirtualBox disk deframenting
15 Jul 2011Assuming an windows image, first run defragger:
http://www.mydefrag.com/
Zero freespace w/ sdelete available from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897443.aspx
sdelete -c
From command/terminal:
VBoxManage modifyhd diskname.vdi –compact
Thanks: http://www.processworks.de/blog/2010/07/how-to-shrink-a-virtualbox-vdi-disk-image-to-the-required-size/