Re: [libvirt-users] snapshots and qcow2

2014-12-08 Thread Laszlo Hornyak
Hi Eric, Thank you for the reply, yes indeed the qcow2 file takes only a few GB on disk. On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 12/08/2014 03:03 PM, Laszlo Hornyak wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I ran into a strange behavior with libvirt snapshots. I have some vms > > running with th

Re: [libvirt-users] snapshots and qcow2

2014-12-08 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/08/2014 03:03 PM, Laszlo Hornyak wrote: > Hi, > > I ran into a strange behavior with libvirt snapshots. I have some vms > running with thin-provisioned qcow2 disk images (libvirt 1.1.3 with fedora > 20). > * When I create a snapshot on the VM, the qcow file suddenly grows big, > somewhat big

[libvirt-users] snapshots and qcow2

2014-12-08 Thread Laszlo Hornyak
Hi, I ran into a strange behavior with libvirt snapshots. I have some vms running with thin-provisioned qcow2 disk images (libvirt 1.1.3 with fedora 20). * When I create a snapshot on the VM, the qcow file suddenly grows big, somewhat bigger than the maximum size of the disk. * When I delete the s