<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 3:06 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ovirt@timmi.org" target="_blank">ovirt@timmi.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi oVirt List,<br>
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I'm trying to change the disk allocation policy of a VM disk and I'm not able to perform this task via the oVirt front-end.<br>
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Is someone able to tell me how I can do that?<br>
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Best regards and thank you<br>
Christoph<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've done it in the past by creating a snapshot of a VM and then cloning the snapshot and selecting preallocated for the cloned disks (if you have to do it without powering off the source VM)</div><div>Or directly creating a clone of the VM if it is powered off, I think it creates a full preallocated copy and btw you have no way to tell to clone as thin if I remember correctly</div><div><br></div><div>Gianluca</div></div><br></div></div>