From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57574 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P2R6j-0008Pz-TN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 03 Oct 2010 12:08:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P2R6g-0006Qp-RM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 03 Oct 2010 12:08:13 -0400 Received: from mail.virtall.com ([178.63.195.102]:44852) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P2R6g-0006O2-Cl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 03 Oct 2010 12:08:10 -0400 Received: from mail.virtall.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.virtall.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFDE5357B4F for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 18:08:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.10.145] (e183095092.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.183.95.92]) by mail.virtall.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CD697357B3F for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 18:08:06 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4CA8AA66.9020202@wpkg.org> Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 18:08:06 +0200 From: Tomasz Chmielewski MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] resizing qcow2 images? List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" Is it somehow possible to resize qcow2 images? The only "method" I know is to convert an existing image into a different format, resizing it, then converting it back to qcow2. Which is quite lengthy and means plenty of IO. Moreover, it gets even more tricky if the image is already more than 50% of your storage space and you still want to increase its size. Are there any better solutions for qcow2 resizing? -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org