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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Zhang Haoyu <zhanghy@sangfor.com.cn>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] question about live migration with storage
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:07:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5512B326.9030007@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201503101001341072349@sangfor.com.cn>



On 10/03/2015 03:01, Zhang Haoyu wrote:
> My test results show that when using thin-provisioning qcow2
> image(created by qemu-img create -f qcow2 preallocation=metadata), 
> even the unallocated sectors will be transferred to destination, so
> much data is transferred, so the qcow2 image in destination is full
> allocated.

Yes, metadata preallocation actually allocates all sectors.  Only, the
qcow2 image is sparse so the sectors do not consume space on the source.

I think you can avoid the problem by passing file.detect-zeroes=unmap in
the -drive option of the destination QEMU.  Kevin/Peter, can you confirm
this should work?

Paolo

      reply	other threads:[~2015-03-25 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-13  1:48 [Qemu-devel] question about live migration with storage Zhang Haoyu
2015-01-13  2:03 ` Zhang Haoyu
2015-01-13  9:45   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-01-14  2:41   ` Zhang Haoyu
2015-01-14  7:34     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-01-14  7:58     ` Zhang Haoyu
2015-01-14  9:06       ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-01-15  3:54       ` Zhang Haoyu
2015-01-15  9:11         ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-01-15  9:56         ` Zhang Haoyu
2015-01-15 10:08           ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-10  2:01           ` Zhang Haoyu
2015-03-25 13:07             ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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