This is a multipart message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01D03007.593ABB70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to export some vm's to bring them up in another system, and its painfully slow. I could be doing something wrong, or maybe there is a setting I can change to make this process a little faster. dd copies the image in 1MB blocks from what I can see in the logs, is there any way to make it copy in say 64M blocks. I know it won't be 64 times faster, I have been waiting a full 24 hours on just one image. Large as it may be {100G}, I know dd can work faster than 24 hours for 100G Donny D ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01D03007.593ABB70 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:m=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" = xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta = http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii"><meta name=3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft Word 14 = (filtered medium)"><style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-priority:99; color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-priority:99; color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} span.EmailStyle17 {mso-style-type:personal-compose; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:windowtext;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} @page WordSection1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext=3D"edit" spidmax=3D"1026" /> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext=3D"edit"> <o:idmap v:ext=3D"edit" data=3D"1" /> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=3DEN-US link=3Dblue = vlink=3Dpurple><div class=3DWordSection1><p class=3DMsoNormal>I am = trying to export some vm’s to bring them up in another system, and = its painfully slow. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>I could be doing = something wrong, or maybe there is a setting I can change to make this = process a little faster. <o:p></o:p></p><p = class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>dd copies = the image in 1MB blocks from what I can see in the logs, is there any = way to make it copy in say 64M blocks… <o:p></o:p></p><p = class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>I know it = won’t be 64 times faster, I have been waiting a full 24 hours on = just one image. Large as it may be {100G}, I know dd can work faster = than 24 hours for 100G<o:p></o:p></p><p = class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>Donny = D<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html> ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01D03007.593ABB70--