John Wong wrote: >I create the 30G qcow2 image file, installed winxp, winxp show me the >harddisk used 5G, but the image file size is 12G now. >can i shrink the image file size? how? >my kvm version is: "kvm-84", qemu version is: "0.9.1". >please help, thank you. In addition to what the others said, you might be able to reclaim some space by running qemu-img convert. If you tell it to compress, it will certainly reduce the image file size, perhaps with a little loss in performance. qemu-img convert -c -O qcow2 source.img target.img -- Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia "There is more to life than simply increasing its speed." - Gandhi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
