[ovirt-users] hosted engine local disk estimate for OVA file

[Yuval Turgeman]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Ben De Luca <bdeluca at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>      I am in the middle of a disaster recovery situation trying to
>> install ovirt 4.1 after a failure of some of our NFS systems. So I was
>> redeploying 4.0 but there is a bug with the image uploader, that means I
>> cant upload images. Our actually virtual machine hosts have very small HD's
>> and the current 4.1 release installer thinks that the OVA extracted is
>> 50GiB, I have exactly 50GB free! yay. So I did manage to hack the
>> installer, to ignore my local disk space as the OVA is really only a few
>> gigs in side.
>>
>>      But its been pretty painful. Any chance of some one fixing the
>> estimate there, I have read through the code, there was an attempt to find
>> out the real size but they gave up and just guessed.
>>
>>
> We changed it to 50G in[1].
> Did we over-estimate?
>


Could very well be, but this patch was posted in order to align the
upstream disk size.  Adding Fabian, perhaps he remembers the initial
thoughts.

Thanks,
Yuval.



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> Y.
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> [1] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/72962/
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>> -bd
>> *tired sysadmin*
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