[ovirt-users] Can I use qcow2?

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Fri Sep 5 01:32:46 EDT 2014


On 09/05/2014 04:20 AM, Punit Dambiwal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have checked and found that ovirt support two type of disk formats
> (RAW & QCOW2)...but bydefault it create the VM disk with RAW format....i
> try but didn't find any way to change this format to qcow2 ??

since file system are usually sparse by default, we use RAW which 
provides better performance than COW.

>
> How i can change the default vm disk from RAW to QCOW2 ??

i thought I saw samples on how to do this via the API/CLI earlier in the 
thread:
http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-September/027147.html

>
> I am using the below :-
> Ovirt :- 3.4.3
> Glusterfs :- 3.5
>
> Thanks,
> Punit
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com
> <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 09/03/2014 06:45 PM, Sven Kieske wrote:
>
>
>
>         Am 03.09.2014 17:37, schrieb Gianluca Cecchi:
>
>             I remember to have asked for something like that in the past
>             on this list
>             and then Tim Hildred <thildred at redhat.com
>             <mailto:thildred at redhat.com>>  from Red Hat opened such a
>             bugzilla entry for me so that I could comment with my open
>             account ....
>
>             see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/__show_bug.cgi?id=954211
>             <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=954211>
>
>             Can we ask here a similar workflow?
>             Thanks in advance,
>
>
>         Well yeah, that works somehow, but why can't I open
>         a bug on these docs? they are available to the public
>         anyway.
>
>         Everybody can investigate them for errors, but I need
>         a red hat guy to make a report if I find an error? really?
>
>         I think I just won't report any doc bugs anymore, because
>         red hat doesn't seem to want that.
>
>
>     for now, for lack of a better option, I suggest opening them on
>     ovirt docs.
>
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