On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 04:23:31AM -0400, Arik Hadas wrote: > - the second option will be based on estimations of the actual size > of the converted disks and since all we know is their > virtual-sizes, we might allocated much more space that we need so > we'll need another phase of shrinking the disks according to the > amount of data that was actually written - in this case the whole > operation will be slower than it could be
Although estimation is difficult, it's a bit more sophisticated than just the virtual size. See: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/v2v/v2v.ml#L488 Actually I need to test this code on some sample guests to see how close the estimate is to the reality. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com 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 _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel