So little clear message on what you’ve done to mitigate these issues, no way to check the patch status of an install and worst of all in the first few hours of the story breaking claiming El Capitan, Sierra and High Sierra were patched against Meltdown in December when they weren’t. I don’t think this is Apples finest hour. This method did reclaim about 20GB but the image was still about 130GB and I wanted to shrink it a lot more. I tried this on a VM which was using about 150GB was using less than 50 GB. Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vdiskmanager -d "Virtual Disk.vmdk" /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vdiskmanager -k "Virtual Disk.vmdk" I did the following (defrag the image and shrink it) but I skipped the step of filling the remaining disk with zeros. I didn’t follow the procedure entirely and that could well account for my dissatisfaction with the results. If all is well after a period of testing then remove and move the old hdd device to Trash. Once completed, shutdown the VM, select the new hdd image as the start device and try to boot the VM. Select the disk
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