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Re: [Qemu-devel] autoexpand images


From: Tony Nelson
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] autoexpand images
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 13:53:21 -0400

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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