On Wednesday, November 9, 2011 6:34:18 AM UTC-5, mmarco wrote: > > The .ova file is 2 gigs big. >
This is too big. I'm maintaining the "official" virtual image and its only 1.4 gb, despite being a fairly standard Fedora install. Did you zero out the virtual disk before exporting? There is trash in the unused virtual disk sectors that impacts compression. IMHO the most important thing is not cutting down the VM to the minimal size, but making it easily maintainable by having a script that spits out a new OVA without user interaction... -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org