did you try to change the image file type in the definition?
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Qiubo Su (David Su) <qiub...@gmail.com>wrote: > dear opennebula community, > > the 40GB is the virtual size of the image.vdi image, while the 1.3GB is > the acutal size of the image.vdi image. > > just FYI. > > thanks, > david su > > > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Qiubo Su (David Su) > <qiub...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> dear opennebula community, >> >> i run "VBoxManage clonehd --format RAW image.vdi image.img" to convert >> the virtualbox .vdi vm instance to raw format, and with virt-manager to >> create new vm with the raw format, it works fine, i.e. can start the new vm >> instance successfully and the networking access is the same as before. >> >> but after run "qemu-img convert -f raw image.img -O qcow2 image.qcow" to >> convert the raw format to qcow2 format, and with virt-manager to create new >> vm with the qcow2 format, it doesn't work, i.e. get "no bootable device" >> error when start the new vm with qcow2 format, no need to say the >> networking access. >> >> the size of the ram format disk is about 40GB, while the size of the >> qcow2 format disk is about 1.3GB (similar as that of the original image.vdi >> size), nearly 30 times smaller than the raw format. >> >> if not convert the raw format to qcow2 format, then the disk size is too >> large, waste of disk space. >> >> there are ubuntu 12.04, opennebula 3.6.0, and kvm, qemu, libvirt etc >> installed. >> >> it is much appreciated if you can help with this. >> >> thanks, >> david su > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.opennebula.org > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > >
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