I am working on the base image now. My next step is to run sysprep. I am wondering why the instructions don’t mention anything about shrinking or compacting the VHDX file so it takes less space. Isn’t that a common practice when creating base images?
I am building a parent-child(differing disk) setup. I think something must have been wrong with my first attempt with shrinking the disk, because today after going through the guest and shrinking the volume down to 12 gig it actually reflected that in the host. For some reason when I tried to shrink it the first time it was showing up as 60 gig on the host machine. What about the page file? Should I dump that on the base disk, shrink again and then sysprep? I see it is using 600MB right now.