Hi,
I set up a Hyper-V Windows Server 2008 VM on my PC and I connect to it through Remote Desktop. Whenever I try to copy/paste a folder into the VM through RDP, the size of my VM on my PC increases drastically. I tried moving a 20 MB folder this way and the size of the VM on my C:\ drive increased by 10 GB!!!
Does anyone know why this causes my disk space to increase so drastically?
Is there a way to revert the disk space to the previous size? I tried the Compact feature and that did not seem to make any difference.
When I look at the hard drive of my VM, it says it is only using about 40 GB but it takes up about 58 GB on my hard drive. If anyone has any ideas on how to shrink this space I would be interested. I also tried
Resize-VHD –Path c:\BaseVHDX.vhdx –ToMinimumSize
but I got an error saying it was not allowed.
Thanks!