[ovirt-users] qcow2 as default disk format

[Daniel Helgenberger]

Hello,

AFAIK cow images are currently not configurable via GUI and cannot be 
set as default disk format. IIRC the reason being RAW and sparse are 
providing better performance (until you try to copy a larger disk image...).

However, you can add qcow - disks with ovirt shell and use these images:

$ add disk \
        --vm-identifier <vm_name> \
        --provisioned_size <size_in_bytes> \
        --interface virtio \
        --name <disk_name> \
        --format cow \
        --sparse true \
        --storage_domains-storage_domain 
storage_domain.name=<storage_domain_name>


On 04.02.2015 18:56, shimano wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to set qcow2 as default format of disk image in oVirt 3.5.1?
>

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