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* [Qemu-devel] autoexpand images
@ 2007-05-26 11:15 Christian Buhtz
  2007-05-26 12:28 ` [Qemu-devel] " Christian Buhtz
  2007-05-26 17:53 ` [Qemu-devel] " Tony Nelson
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Christian Buhtz @ 2007-05-26 11:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel

Is it possible to create hard-disk images that expand automaticly? 
Create a 10G image that is realy 2G big, because just 2G are in use but 
the guest-system see 10G.

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* [Qemu-devel] Re: autoexpand images
  2007-05-26 11:15 [Qemu-devel] autoexpand images Christian Buhtz
@ 2007-05-26 12:28 ` Christian Buhtz
  2007-05-26 14:24   ` Jannes Faber
  2007-05-26 17:53 ` [Qemu-devel] " Tony Nelson
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Christian Buhtz @ 2007-05-26 12:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel

Christian Buhtz schrieb:
> Is it possible to create hard-disk images that expand automaticly? 

Ah, I found the qcow2 image format.

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* Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: autoexpand images
  2007-05-26 12:28 ` [Qemu-devel] " Christian Buhtz
@ 2007-05-26 14:24   ` Jannes Faber
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jannes Faber @ 2007-05-26 14:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel

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On 5/26/07, Christian Buhtz <exsudat@gmx.de> wrote:
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> Christian Buhtz schrieb:
> > Is it possible to create hard-disk images that expand automaticly?
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> Ah, I found the qcow2 image format.
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Search for sparse files. Might be more what you are looking for.

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Jannes Faber

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* Re: [Qemu-devel] autoexpand images
  2007-05-26 11:15 [Qemu-devel] autoexpand images Christian Buhtz
  2007-05-26 12:28 ` [Qemu-devel] " Christian Buhtz
@ 2007-05-26 17:53 ` Tony Nelson
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Tony Nelson @ 2007-05-26 17:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel

At 1:15 PM +0200 5/26/07, Christian Buhtz wrote:
>Is it possible to create hard-disk images that expand automaticly?
>Create a 10G image that is realy 2G big, because just 2G are in use but
>the guest-system see 10G.

A sparse file will do this for you, on Linux.  At least it did it for me. :)

If you use QCOW 2, be sure to use trunk rather than the formal release
version.  Someone will know the revision where QCOW 2's data loss bug got
fixed.
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