[Qemu-discuss] Info about compressed images

2017-01-13 Thread Gianni Costanzi
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Re: [Qemu-discuss] Info about compressed images

2017-01-25 Thread Gianni Costanzi
Thank you very much Alberto, I've really misunderstood how compression worked. BTW it seems good to compress some big base-images. Thank you very much for having explained the concept very well :) Best regards, Gianni Cos

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Multiple snapshots with one guest user

2017-01-25 Thread Gianni Costanzi
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Alberto Garcia wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 03:20:33PM +0330, Mahmood Naderan wrote: > > May i ask what is the difference between the following commands > > > > 1) qemu-img create -o backing_file base.img new.img 10G > Hi Alberto, what's the purpose of specif

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Multiple snapshots with one guest user

2017-01-25 Thread Gianni Costanzi
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Alberto Garcia wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:23:01AM +0100, Gianni Costanzi wrote: > > > what's the purpose of specifying the size when you're creating an > > image with a backing file? Is it simply ignored? > > The (virtu

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Multiple snapshots with one guest user

2017-01-25 Thread Gianni Costanzi
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Alberto Garcia wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 04:16:22PM +0100, Gianni Costanzi wrote: > > > > > what's the purpose of specifying the size when you're creating > > > > an image with a backing file? Is it simply ignored