Take the 2-minute tour ×  I faced a problem. I deployed a VM by
size of 500GB on Citrix XenServer and now I want to shrink it,
because I don't have enough space for snapshots. Now I want to
perform an export/import to do this. I'm wondering if it's
possible to import the OVF or OVA image on a smaller Virtual HD?
or HD should be the same size?  share|improve this question add
comment  2 Answers  I almost got my answer from Citrix manual:
When you create an OVF package, the virtual hard disk images
are, by default, allocated the same amount of space as the
exported VM. For example, a VM that is allocated 26 GB of space
will have a hard disk image that consumes 26 GB of space,
regardless of whether or not the VM actually requires it.  So, I
can't shrink it in this way! The link below suggests a
technique: How to Shrink a Windows VM in XenServer
share|improve this answer add comment  What you should do is to
first shrink the related disk from Windows. Then try to shrink
it from XenServer.  share|improve this an