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...tion VM start pausing itself.  This one had been running for more than 4 years on a 60G LVM volume.  It has had the occasional snapshot during that time though all have been "removed" using the virt-manager gui so I used qemu-img as you suggested. # qemu-img convert /dev/trk-kvm-02-vg/rt44 -O qcow2 /mnt/scratch/rt44.qcow2 dd'd the qcow2 image back on to the LV after testing it boots OK directly from the image and it is in production again. The VM itself reports ample space available: $ df -h Filesystem                       Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev               ...

I have been using internal snapshots on production qcow2 images for a couple of years, admittedly as infrequently as possible with one exception and that exception has had multiple snapshots taken and removed using virt-manager's GUI. I was unaware of this: > There are some technical downsides to > internal snapshots IIUC, such as inability to free the space used by the > internal