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new 29d6a903 [Doc] ceph-common package requirement on KVM hosts, to get
the physical size of the snapshots for the volumes on ceph primary storage
(#622)
29d6a903 is described below
commit 29d6a90327bdad7a7ae53115a61ea9f1f6753acb
Author: Suresh Kumar Anaparti <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Apr 6 22:18:07 2026 +0530
[Doc] ceph-common package requirement on KVM hosts, to get the physical
size of the snapshots for the volumes on ceph primary storage (#622)
* [Doc] ceph-common package requirement on KVM hosts, to get the physical
size of the snapshots for the volumes on ceph primary storage
---
source/installguide/hypervisor/kvm.rst | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/source/installguide/hypervisor/kvm.rst
b/source/installguide/hypervisor/kvm.rst
index 5c0ec09a..5097b2f9 100644
--- a/source/installguide/hypervisor/kvm.rst
+++ b/source/installguide/hypervisor/kvm.rst
@@ -1691,6 +1691,9 @@ In order to be able to perform Volume Snapshots on CentOS
6.x (greater than 6.4)
replace your version of qemu-img with one which has been patched to include
the '-s'
switch.
+CloudStack uses the rbd command to get the physical size of the snapshots for
the volumes on ceph
+primary storage. This requires ceph-common package to be installed on the KVM
hosts. If it
+is not installed, the allocated size is used as the physical size of the
snapshots.
Live Migration
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
