

If you need to compress the disk even further, try removing unnecessary files from it before using the “Reclaim” option in Parallels.

Resume & Shutdown: If you put the virtual machine to sleep instead of shutting it down, the contents of the virtual machine’s memory are saved to your Mac’s hard drive.Click the “Snapshot Manager” button and you can choose to delete some snapshots to free up space. Snapshots: If you’ve taken snapshots to save the state of the virtual machine, those snapshots will use space.
