<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Hi Sven,<br><br>Have you tried qemu-img?<br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Sven Knohsalla" <s.knohsalla@netbiscuits.com><br><b>To: </b>users@ovirt.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, August 23, 2012 5:48:45 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Users] How to resize physical disk size with virt-p2v<br><br><style><!--
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--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">we’re currently using oVirt engine3.0 and have about 50 VMs successfully running ( thanks for your great work!!) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">At the moment we do migrate ESX/KVM VMs and baremetal servers to oVirt.<br>For p2v migration we’re using virt-p2v 0.87 (iso created from rpm virt-p2v-image-builder)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Migration is working fine, but the vdisk size is accordingly to original physical hdd size.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For example:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Server with 500 GB HDD size, partitions (swap,/,boot) shrinked to ~50 GB.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(df –h will show only 50 GB for / )</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">First I thought, shrinking partitions of the server will help out,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But unfortunately, the tool is using the whole hard disk space to convert (using dd ?)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">…and so we have a successfully migrated VM in oVirt with 500GB vHDD size.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Is there any way or alternative software we can use for P2V migration?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thanks in advance,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sven.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#5A5A5A;mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US">Sven Knohsalla | Systems Administration </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="http://www.netbiscuits.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#BF000D" lang="EN-US">Netbiscuits - 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