Bug#726629: qemu-utils: please support qemu-img option preallocation=full for qcow2

2013-10-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Michael Tokarev dixit: > I don't think this makes any sense. If you want fully-pre-allocated > images, just use raw, there's no need to use qcow at all. You'll get I'd actually prefer using an LVM LV, but I can’t always do what I want. (In my case, the other admins argue with “qcow2 can do (mul

Bug#726629: qemu-utils: please support qemu-img option preallocation=full for qcow2

2013-10-18 Thread Michael Tokarev
19.10.2013 00:01, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Michael Tokarev dixit: some other distros have preallocation=full option for qemu-img Which other distros? lsb_release -a says: LSB Version: :base-4.0-amd64:base-4.0-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:pr

Bug#726629: qemu-utils: please support qemu-img option preallocation=full for qcow2

2013-10-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Michael Tokarev dixit: >> some other distros have preallocation=full option for qemu-img > >Which other distros? lsb_release -a says: LSB Version: :base-4.0-amd64:base-4.0-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch Dist

Bug#726629: qemu-utils: please support qemu-img option preallocation=full for qcow2

2013-10-17 Thread Michael Tokarev
Control: tag -1 + wontfix 17.10.2013 16:31, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Package: qemu-utils > Version: 1.6.0+dfsg-2 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > some other distros have preallocation=full option for qemu-img Which other distros? > qcow2 format, somehow Debian (even sid) doesn’t. > > Please a

Bug#726629: qemu-utils: please support qemu-img option preallocation=full for qcow2

2013-10-17 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Package: qemu-utils Version: 1.6.0+dfsg-2 Severity: wishlist Hi, some other distros have preallocation=full option for qemu-img qcow2 format, somehow Debian (even sid) doesn’t. Please add it, because this is needed in order to not overcommit the available VM backing store space when one is unabl