Am 15.10.2012 15:25, schrieb Paolo Bonzini: > Il 15/10/2012 11:33, Kuniyasu Suzaki ha scritto: >> Hello, >> >> "delvm" is a command to delete a snapshot image in a qcow2 file. >> However it does not reduce the qcow2 file size. > > Note that the file will not grow when new allocations are performed in > the future. > > QEMU should also convert the unused clusters to "holes" in the file > system, but it doesn't do that yet. > >> Is there any method to reduce the qcow2 file size when I delete a snapshot >> image? >> should I "convert" the qcow2 file? > > I'm not sure what convert does if you have internal snapshots.
It loses the snapshots. Kevin
