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when you create the disk, there's an option to pre-allocate it - 
I chose that (the size had was a 1 GB disk). Not sure if that would 
make a difference as to how small it would compress

Skydrive needs a Live ID to download a publicly shared file? That's 
hilarious. I should buy Dropbox shares (if I had the money). :-)

I can try again with a disk that is not pre-allocated

Could be, if it doesn't zero-fill it

no, I think I just shared it with the option to edit

Qtask also needs cookies to get into a public file listing

(If only Dropbox had public shares ... :)

creating the VM again without pre-allocating the disk to see if it'll 
compress more

Thanks

with 0.6.6, did you choose the top compression with 7zip?

I just did it at whatever is the default

also, not sure if versions after 9.20 compress any better - do they?

Yes, was going to say that, highest compression. It takes longer

I don't know about newer versions, but I do everything with 9.04 
on Syllable

same size with the disk not pre-allocated

here's the depositfiles link:

http://depositfiles.com/files/junsikpqn

Kaj, it looks like bloat is just the natural course :-)

was the prior image for an even older version of Workstation than 
6?

Waited a minute, watched ads, says download will take 61 minutes, 
answered captcha, got popup ads, chose downloading, get same popup 
ad over and over, no download

VMware version: don't remember. I never made them myself

jeez, it's sad that things have gotten so bad - the thing is that 
with adblock plus I never see popups so I forget how bad it can be

I was just wondering how I can get a popup. Firefox is supposed to 
block them, but they put them under the download button

you should try the regular download - the other one requires more 
BS

Regular?

you should use adblock plus

I never have popups

are there two meters on the page you get?

Yes, I'm using regular. For Gold I need to pay

the regular (free) download is the one on the right

Yes, that's the one I described

and you still get all that crap?

Yes, otherwise you have to pay. Makes sense, but this is not working

what I see when I click there is a countdown timer

Yes, and then all the other stuff

I'd rather just upload the VirtualBox image I have

how large is your virtualbox image?

if you want, np - I can try google drive, though

145 MB

Let me check

I'd like to have your image, but this is not working

sorry, thought you were asking me

give me a place to upload to and I'll stick it there - you can then 
figure out what you want to do

I got no popups after the countdown - there was a captcha and then 
a button to download

That button only produces the popup for me. Anyway, this is not something 
I can put our users through

i think i have a qemu/kvm image from back when syllable desktop 0.6.7 
was released. if that's of any use, i can dig it up.

I currently have my VB Bzip2'ed at 112 MB, so it should be very close 
to the 93 MB installation CD when I 7-Zip it

Thanks, but a QEmu image is less problematic for me to produce, because 
we have it in Syllable

I did the VB because it's in Ubuntu and VB works much better now 
than past versions. However, VMware seems to have disappeared from 
Ubuntu, so it's hard to make the images we used to have

I'll see if VB can export to OVF, and then hope VMware can use the 
VB disk format