On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:39:25PM -0500, Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, > > `man virt-install` says the following. But it is not clear to me what > format is used if it is not specified explicitly. Does anybody know? > Should this be documented? > > Also, how to check what the format is of an image file? Thanks. I would recommend using qemu-img info: image: /dev/vg_guests/f21rawhidex64 file format: raw virtual size: 50G (53687091200 bytes) disk size: 0 There is an option to set the output to JSON if you need to process this in another program. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list