[ovirt-users] How to change disk from thin to pre allocated

[ovirt at timmi.org]

Hi Gianluca,

I tried to clone the VM but it does not help. It is still thin allocation.

Best regards
Christoph

Am 09.02.2017 um 15:44 schrieb Gianluca Cecchi:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 3:06 PM, <ovirt at timmi.org 
> <mailto:ovirt at timmi.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi oVirt List,
>
>     I'm trying to change the disk allocation policy of a VM disk and
>     I'm not able to perform this task via the oVirt front-end.
>
>     Is someone able to tell me how I can do that?
>
>     Best regards and thank you
>     Christoph
>
>
> I've done it in the past by creating a snapshot of a VM and then 
> cloning the snapshot and selecting preallocated for the cloned disks 
> (if you have to do it without powering off the source VM)
> Or directly creating a clone of the VM if it is powered off, I think 
> it creates a full preallocated copy and btw you have no way to tell to 
> clone as thin if I remember correctly
>
> Gianluca
>

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