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Advice when preparing a VM
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Set up the VM with automating tools

Properly export the VM

Shrink the disk (from https://www.maketecheasier.com/shrink-your-virtualbox-vm/):

  • Reboot in Recovery mode (hold the Shift key while the VM is booting)
  • Switch to Console
  • Mount the disk in read-only mode: mount -n -o remount,ro -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /
  • Zero out the free space: zerofree /dev/sda1
  • Shut down the VM: shutdown -h now

Then export the VM as an OVA file.

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