[ovirt-users] Re: Sparsifying VM disk not working

ovirt-engine intentionally blocks sparsifying QCOW images since 4.4.4 because it confused users that didn't see the right amount of free space afterwards, see the following bug for more details: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1792905

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 3:03 PM <andreas_nikiforou(a)hotmail.com&gt; wrote: > Unfortunately yes, even VM's/disks on the NFS data domain are giving the > same error. > > Just to be sure, i just created a completely new NFS data share on > Truenas imported the data domain to ovirt and created a new test vm with 2 > thin provisioned disks on it, cannot sparsify neither: > > "Error while executing action: Cannot sparsify Virtual Disk. Sparsifying > is not supported for QCOW2 disk testvm3_Disk1." > > I checked the NFS share on Truenas to make sure i have a sparse qcow2 > file and it is: > > -rw-rw---- 1 vdsm ovirt-kvm 24G Jan 12 12:57 > a0f82c8b-d2aa-442b-b28b-b25ca684dd7b > -rw-rw---- 1 vdsm ovirt-kvm 1.0M Jan 12 12:44 > a0f82c8b-d2aa-442b-b28b-b25ca684dd7b.lease > -rw-r--r-- 1 vdsm ovirt-kvm 307 Jan 12 12:44 > a0f82c8b-d2aa-442b-b28b-b25ca684dd7b.meta > root@truenas[.../29dcdef7-8d1d-48bc-b9cf-3850102ec251]# file > a0f82c8b-d2aa-442b-b28b-b25ca684dd7b > a0f82c8b-d2aa-442b-b28b-b25ca684dd7b: QEMU QCOW2 Image (v3), 26843545600 > bytes > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/WT5I4O6BOXI... >