[Users] export VM

[Alexandre Santos]

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 at gmail.com>

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> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Alexandre Santos <santosam72 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 2012/11/18 Cristian Falcas <cristi.falcas at gmail.com>
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>>> 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
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>>> 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?
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>> Alex
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> Hi Alex,
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> I don't understand what you mean by raw.
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> I was saying that the same file could be copied as a sparse file instead.
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> Cristian
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