From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49030) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SXBLj-0001xQ-TX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2012 09:11:41 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SXBLi-0003jb-3S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2012 09:11:35 -0400 Received: from isrv.corpit.ru ([86.62.121.231]:55229) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SXBLh-0003jJ-SW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2012 09:11:34 -0400 Message-ID: <4FBCE201.3070009@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 17:11:29 +0400 From: Michael Tokarev MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] The image size of instance VM keeps growing List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: =?Big5?B?IkpvbmFoLld1Ladkp2erai2s46hztW+uabOh?= =?Big5?B?Ig==?= , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , =?Big5?B?IkNoYXJsZXMuVHNhaS29srJNrvwtrOOoc7VvrmmzoSI=?= 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