On 02/19/2013 07:19 AM, Peter Velas wrote: > Hello guys, > > > My environment > Fedora 18 with kernel 3.7.8-202.fc18.x86_64 > Virtual Machine Manager 0.9.4 > > when creating New Storage Volume in virt-manager > newVM.img with qcow2 format for example with following settings: > > > Max Capacity: 10240 MB > Allocation: 10240 MB > > But then if I check the file its still small > ls -lha newVM.img > -rw------- 1 root root 193K Feb 19 12:59 newVM.img > > So I am not sure if its bug or this feature isn't implemented yet. > qemu-img create / convert preallocation is working fine. > The bug here is that virt-manager claims it can fully allocate a qcow2 image, but the underlying tools don't support that. Even if you ask for full allocation it gives you the minimal sparse image. Please file an upstream virt-manager bug about this: http://virt-manager.org/page/BugReporting Thanks, Cole _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
