Use -c during conversion for compressing.

Regards,
Sinan

> Op 21 nov. 2018 om 20:54 heeft Nir Soffer <nsof...@redhat.com> het volgende 
> geschreven:
> 
>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 17:28 Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cec...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I have a qcow2 image file with these details with "qemu-img info" command:
>> 
>> file format: qcow2
>> virtual size: 66G (70866960384 bytes)
>> disk size: 1.5G
>> cluster_size: 65536
>> Format specific information:
>>     compat: 0.10
>> 
>> I'm on 4.2.6 and If I try to upload as a disk from the GUI it seems it tries 
>> to upload full 66Gb, not 1.5Gb...
> 
> 
> You hit
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1627032
> 
> 
>> And it goes paused after the probably transferred 1.5Gb...
>> Also, I would like it to be qcow2 1.1 and not 0.10
>> I have run:
>> 
>> qemu-img convert -O qcow2 -o compat=1.1 source.qc2 source.qc2_v3
> 
> 
> This works, but you can use amend instead of convert.
> 
> You can also upload the image as is, oVirt amend the image to use 1.1 after 
> the upload.
> 
>> 
>> and now I have
>> file format: qcow2
>> virtual size: 66G (70866960384 bytes)
>> disk size: 4.2G
>> cluster_size: 65536
>> Format specific information:
>>     compat: 1.1
>>     lazy refcounts: false
>>     refcount bits: 16
>>     corrupt: false
>> 
>> Is it expected to pass from 1.5Gb to 4.2Gb after conversion?
> 
> 
> The original image probaly had some compressed clusters. Converting 
> uncompress all clusters.
> 
>> 
>> Anyway also in 1.1 format, if I try to upload It keeps sending the whole 
>> 66Gb and now it goes in paused after about 1 minute (at rate of 60MB/s) that 
>> lets me think that once arrived at the 4.2Gb size it has problems...
> 
> 
> Same issue
> 
>> 
>> Any hint?
> 
> 
> Update to 4.2.7, or upload using the SDK:
> https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine-sdk/blob/master/sdk/examples/upload_disk.py
> 
> Nir
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