NWABAP75101.vdi –compactĪfter the tool finishes, the disk size will be close to what Linux showed in the df output: 4,19 GB.

Use VBoxManager to minimize the disk size. Navigate to the location of your VM and the VDI disk image. dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/dummy bs=8126kĭelete the dummy file and shut down Linux. This will later allow the compression of the VDI disk. This cleans up the used disk space to less than 4 GB, almost 29GBįill the disk with zeros. How to clean up the disk? The steps are the same as shown in my previous blog on how to optimize a VMDK disk.ĭelete everything in the VM that is not needed. Disk space has a precious value for MacBook users. The space used in the VM is 33 GB, and the VDI file is 45 GB. This means that the space the virtual disk is using keeps growing. Therefore, my update process is to wipe NW from the disk and reinstall it in the same Linux VM.

Installing a new Linux every time does takes some time. Installing a new NW ABAP version is not overly complex: the SAP provided installer is easy to use and it takes not even 30 minutes to have a system up and running.

Unfortunately, the update process for this software is to delete and reinstall after the DB license expires. The issue seems to be addressed in ticket number 20636 titled, 'VBoxHeadless does not run in macOS Monterey 12.0.1 > fixed in SVN/next maintenance.' And according to a comment by the user 'klaus'. I run an SAP NetWeaver ABAP Dev Edition system in a Virtual Box VM.

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