Re: qcow2 image growing without reason ?

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Ben Budts wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been running kvm21 for a long time (just upgraded to kvm-33 with 2.6.22.1)
>
> I have a 60GB qcow2 image, I noticed the image was growing without me installing software on the guest os...(WIN XP)
>
> When I select all my files and take properties (in win xp that is), it says 3.7GB, as expected...
>
> The image is allmost the double though (6.4GB) when i look at the qcow2 image, 
> when taking the properties of the HD in win xp it also indictates 6.4GB.
>
> I've been installing some software, after each install I did a restart, bakupped the image etc...
>
> Any idea's ?
>
>   

If Windows says the disk size is 6.4GB, then the qcow image certainly 
can't be smaller.

Maybe you have a large paging file, or perhaps you need to run chkdsk.


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