[Users] export VM

[Cristian Falcas]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Alexandre Santos <santosam72 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2012/11/18 Cristian Falcas <cristi.falcas at gmail.com>
>
>> 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
>>
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> 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
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