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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: "\"Jonah.Wu-吳君勉-研究發展部\"" <jonah.wu@cloudena.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"\"Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部\"" <charles.tsai@cloudena.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] The image size of instance VM keeps growing
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 17:11:29 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FBCE201.3070009@msgid.tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSP0QUhGeJtMksNqEL3W86w1tFWHYamjxNkn494hJ7tjYED7A@mail.gmail.com>

On 23.05.2012 16:57, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
[]
> However, the qcow2 file should not grow much beyond its virtual disk
> size.  So if you find the qcow2 is 3G but the virtual disk size is 1G,
> then there is a bug.  But from what you've posted so far I suspect the
> guest is simply writing to the disk.

Dont't forget about possible snapshots inside the qcow2 file.  So it
is quite well possible to have qcow2 file sized much larger than virtual
disk size :)

/mjt

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-23 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-21  7:47 [Qemu-devel] The image size of instance VM keeps growing Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部
2012-05-21  8:44 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-05-21  9:08   ` Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部
2012-05-21 13:24     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-05-22  0:58       ` Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部
2012-05-23 10:47       ` Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部
2012-05-23 10:58         ` nicolas prochazka
2012-05-23 12:57         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-05-23 13:11           ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2012-05-24  2:35             ` Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部
2012-05-25 11:28             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-05-24  2:33           ` Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部
2012-05-24 10:40           ` Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部
2012-05-25 11:36             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-05-25  9:20           ` Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部
2012-05-25 11:45             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-05-25  2:42       ` [Qemu-devel] Tracing message for mu Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部
2012-05-25  8:13         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-05-26  6:50           ` Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部
2012-05-28 12:30             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-05-23 14:17 ` [Qemu-devel] The image size of instance VM keeps growing Michael Roth

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