Hi Cristian, I don't know what ovirt is doing but if the final file is a raw image, you can shrink it with qemu-img and transform it in a qcow2. What I think was on the head of who implemented this is that you export a VM to a NAS that has normally Teras of space, so it is more compatible to save it in raw format. My 2 cents :-) Alex 2012/11/19 Cristian Falcas <cristi.falcas(a)gmail.com&gt; > > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Alexandre Santos <santosam72(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote: > >> 2012/11/18 Cristian Falcas <cristi.falcas(a)gmail.com&gt; >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I see that exporting a VM with ThinProvisioning will make an image with >>> the full disk size, instead of the currently used size: >>> - VM has a 20GB disk >>> - installed OS is taking 1.3GB >>> - exported disk is taking 20GB >>> >>> Is this mandatory? Couldn't the export make a file with the same size, >>> also sparse? It seems it only does a copy of the folder and the normal >>> linux cp can make a sparse copy. >>> >>> thank you, >>> Cristian Falcas >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> Users(a)ovirt.org >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>> >>> >> Is it exporting a a raw image, right? >> >> Alex >> > > > Hi Alex, > > I don't understand what you mean by raw. > > I was saying that the same file could be copied as a sparse file instead. > > Cristian >