VMware Fusion Concepts

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• VMware Fusion

Virtual Machine Library

VMware Fusion -> Window -> Virtual Machine Library

VM Bundle

Fusion creates a virtual machine as a bundle, which is a set of files grouped together as a package. Each virtual machine bundle contains the VM's virtual disks and settings files. For more details on the location of bundle files on disk see Location of the Virtual Machine Bundle. The bundle contains the following types of files:

.vmx

The VM configuration file. It contains:

Location of the virtual disk files

scsi0:0.fileName = "forge-1.0-000002.vmdk"

.vmdk

A virtual disk file.

Virtual Disk

Pre-Allocated Disk

It is not possible to reduce the size of pre-allocated disk. The size of a pre-allocated disk is always approximately equal to the size allocated to the VM's operating system.