Re: [Qemu-devel] The image size of instance VM keeps growing

[Michael Tokarev]

On 23.05.2012 16:57, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
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> However, the qcow2 file should not grow much beyond its virtual disk
> size.  So if you find the qcow2 is 3G but the virtual disk size is 1G,
> then there is a bug.  But from what you've posted so far I suspect the
> guest is simply writing to the disk.

Dont't forget about possible snapshots inside the qcow2 file.  So it
is quite well possible to have qcow2 file sized much larger than virtual
disk size :)

/mjt