From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44318) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8sZB-0006y7-Gm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 10:30:43 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8sZ5-0007hD-PA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 10:30:37 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-x233.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::233]:50122) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8sZ5-0007h3-ER for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 10:30:31 -0500 Received: by mail-wi0-f179.google.com with SMTP id ex7so1887884wid.0 for ; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 07:30:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 15:30:28 +0000 From: Stefan Hajnoczi Message-ID: <20150107153028.GF22440@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> References: <20141204133138.26031.92640.malonedeb@wampee.canonical.com> <20141204133138.26031.92640.malonedeb@wampee.canonical.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="O98KdSgI27dgYlM5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141204133138.26031.92640.malonedeb@wampee.canonical.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1399191] [NEW] Large VHDX image size List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Bug 1399191 <1399191@bugs.launchpad.net> Cc: Jeff Cody , qemu-devel@nongnu.org --O98KdSgI27dgYlM5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 01:31:38PM -0000, AMULYA L wrote: > Public bug reported: >=20 > We are trying to convert a VMDK image to VHDX image for deploy to HyperV = Server ( SCVMM 2012 SP1) using qemu-img. > We tried converting the image using both 'fixed' as well as 'dynamic' for= mat. We found that both the disks occupy the same size of 50GB. When the sa= me is done with VHD image, we found that the dynamic disks are much lesser = in size (5 GB) than the fixed disk (50GB).=20 >=20 > Why is that the VHDX generates large sized images for both the formats? >=20 > The following commands were used to convert the vmdk image to VHDX > format Jeff, did you fix this recently in commit 85b712c9d5b873562c864e72f69cbf0d87d2fe40 ("block: vhdx - set =2Ebdrv_has_zero_init to bdrv_has_zero_init_1")? Stefan --O98KdSgI27dgYlM5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUrVETAAoJEJykq7OBq3PI5wIH/3R/iFm60oI6GMq6XQMqR85A 5vnMkc1B/n4nN7tZeoEPjHP8XjTr9E2LuFIpBlwzyAzq4RNH+/KCvlw9ywaBO0Zv xXqTwHN+3wFZuhxIHrrvsiioJpDQC7Z5uj3+g5e4A5CUr/EBkVDI47j5g7n9n2S6 DNY/gYL9MbMZkxEhH9VdBIIMQ0JEr23ZGKD2DzQVqdxuYaU5iPnPvba6bUKIUxRM /iMJ1HbDABLGWLttCa6dEVNeaKrPcp+Udhz9eG942axFZ3ikxW9Fxxk1YfpGVyIB ATnaOYx5779BW/eN/jXTTJth5obcoHZcOCPqLTOSu3K7R/hOOY0dVtPd9YSy1Rw= =yYkH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --O98KdSgI27dgYlM5--