On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 07:28:46AM +0000, Pankaj Rawat wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am trying to clone a lvm2 image following thing haapens when I clone a image with virt-clone command > > virt-clone --prompt --force --original lvm_thin_1 --name lvm_thin_2 --file /dev/volgrp/lvm_thin2 > > Now when I clone this, It clone successfully but the cloned image is fully expanded , I mean it takes all 100% space virt-clone doesn't give you much value here. It basically makes a few changes to the libvirt XML configuration (like assigning a new name and UUID) which you could easily do yourself. So the real question is how to copy a thin-provisioned LV and keep it sparse. I don't see a way to do this, but you could create a snapshot of the original using the regular tools (lvcreate). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw
