Yeah, it took me a while to figure out how to shrink my .vmdk's. I describe the steps at http://kegel.com/linux/jeos-vmware-player-howto.html but in short, it's 1. delete unneeded files (and I show which ones) 2. copy to a fresh filesystem (a bit more effective than the zero copy trick you link to) 3. compress with 7zip (yeah, I know, it's a wierd tool, but it compresses .vmdk's much better than anything else I've tried). My vanilla jeos gutsy image is down to 80MB now! »

Thanks. Here's my little contribution, a recipe for using VMWare Player to create a Jeos virtual machine that can run in VMWare Player: http://kegel.com/linux/jeos-vmware-player-howto.html You wouldn't think one would need such a recipe, but the experience was painful; there are four or five gotchas, all of which I document. Compressing the resulting vmware image with p7zip produces a 94MB download, which isn't too shabby. »