[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1025244] Re: qcow2 image increasing disk size above the virtual limit

2013-01-11 Thread Andy Menzel
Thanks for your advices. I have no more problems with VM-size since deleting snapshot in shutdown-mode. I reduced the overlarge qcow2-images by converting in qcow2 again (that detects unused sectors and omits this). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml,

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1025244] Re: qcow2 image increasing disk size above the virtual limit

2012-12-18 Thread Andy Menzel
Any solution right now? I have a similar problem like Todor Andreev; Our daily backup of some virtual machines (qcow2) looks like that: 1. shutdown the VM 2. create a snapshot via: "qemu-img snapshot -c nameofsnapshot..." 3. boot the VM 4. backup the snapshot to another virtual disk via: "qemu-img