I am running VMware Server on Ubuntu 5.10. I have noticed that in my /var/lib/vmware/Virutal Machines/xxxxx that old snapshots are still there. I have installed Windows XP as the guest OS. It started out at about 6GB of space but I am now at over 14GB of space used. Below is list of the files there. Many of them have not been touched for over a month so I am assuming that I can delete those without an issue?
kmiller@xxxxxxxxx:/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional$ ls -alh
total 14G
drwxr-xr-x 2 kmiller kmiller 4.0K 2006-03-14 10:51 .
drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4.0K 2006-02-07 10:24 ..
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 380M 2006-03-14 10:51 564d35c6-9814-620e-3b2b-76c62f6ba1ff.vmem
-rrr-- 1 kmiller kmiller 11 2006-03-14 10:51 564d35c6-9814-620e-3b2b-76c62f6ba1ff.vmem.WRITELOCK
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 8.5K 2006-03-14 10:51 nvram
-rw-rr 1 kmiller kmiller 67K 2006-03-14 10:48 vmware-0.log
-rw-rr 1 kmiller kmiller 94K 2006-03-14 10:45 vmware-1.log
-rw-rr 1 kmiller kmiller 95K 2006-03-14 09:41 vmware-2.log
-rw-rr 1 kmiller kmiller 51K 2006-03-14 11:22 vmware.log
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 848M 2006-02-09 16:14 Windows XP Professional-000001-s001.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 467M 2006-02-09 16:14 Windows XP Professional-000001-s002.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 1.3G 2006-02-09 16:14 Windows XP Professional-000001-s003.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 288M 2006-02-09 16:14 Windows XP Professional-000001-s004.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 64K 2006-02-09 16:14 Windows XP Professional-000001-s005.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 526 2006-02-09 15:19 Windows XP Professional-000001.vmdk
-rrr-- 1 kmiller kmiller 11 2006-03-14 10:51 Windows XP Professional-000001.vmdk.READLOCK
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 9.3M 2006-02-09 16:34 Windows XP Professional-000002-s001.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 12M 2006-02-09 16:34 Windows XP Professional-000002-s002.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 12M 2006-02-09 16:34 Windows XP Professional-000002-s003.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 704K 2006-02-09 16:34 Windows XP Professional-000002-s004.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 64K 2006-02-09 16:34 Windows XP Professional-000002-s005.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 533 2006-02-09 16:31 Windows XP Professional-000002.vmdk
-rrr-- 1 kmiller kmiller 11 2006-03-14 10:51 Windows XP Professional-000002.vmdk.READLOCK
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 490M 2006-03-14 11:16 Windows XP Professional-000004-s001.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 194M 2006-03-14 11:17 Windows XP Professional-000004-s002.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 203M 2006-03-14 11:06 Windows XP Professional-000004-s003.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 1003M 2006-03-14 11:16 Windows XP Professional-000004-s004.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 64K 2006-03-14 10:51 Windows XP Professional-000004-s005.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 533 2006-03-14 10:53 Windows XP Professional-000004.vmdk
-rrr-- 1 kmiller kmiller 11 2006-03-14 10:51 Windows XP Professional-000004.vmdk.WRITELOCK
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 2.0G 2006-02-07 14:52 Windows XP Professional-f001.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 2.0G 2006-02-07 14:52 Windows XP Professional-f002.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 2.0G 2006-02-07 14:51 Windows XP Professional-f003.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 2.0G 2006-02-07 10:35 Windows XP Professional-f004.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 1.0M 2006-02-07 10:29 Windows XP Professional-f005.vmdk
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 380M 2006-02-09 16:34 Windows XP Professional-Snapshot3.vmem
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 18M 2006-02-09 16:34 Windows XP Professional-Snapshot3.vmsn
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 578 2006-02-07 14:16 Windows XP Professional.vmdk
-rrr-- 1 kmiller kmiller 11 2006-03-14 10:51 Windows XP Professional.vmdk.READLOCK
-rw------- 1 kmiller kmiller 912 2006-02-09 16:34 Windows XP Professional.vmsd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kmiller kmiller 1.1K 2006-03-14 10:51 Windows XP Professional.vmx
kmiller@xxx:/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional$ du -h
14G .