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...they haven't made it to "long term support" distributions yet. For now, what has to be done to shrink qcow[2] partitions (raw works) is (regardless of client OS, for Windows defragment is first used followed by resizing the partitions in Disk Management then finally Sysinternals' sdelete to zero disk space - I have used this process and it works but with surprises): defragment (even Linux, look into e2defrag, shake, a defrag script or e4defrag - can be found on the web, haven't used them, YMMV), zero disk space, resize the partition, then use qemu-img to convert to raw (or even...

...r_size: 65536 Format specific information: compat: 0.10 I used Windows Server 2012r2 "Optimize" (defrag) and then reduced the C: partition to about 67G in Disk Administrator leaving the remaining 33G as unallocated. Afterward I tried a web reference technique and used Sysinternals SDelete to zero the free space then used 'qemu-img convert -O qcow2 <original.qcow2> <new.qcow2>' to produce a physical image size of 29G. qemu-img info reports on "new.qcow2": file format: qcow2 virtual size: 100G (107374182400 bytes) disk size: 29G cluster_size: 65536 Fo...

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 08:28:49AM -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote: > I realize this is wandering off-topic but, if you have found Debian commands, you're doing better than me. What are they? Also, are you allowing dd to totally fill the partition (what I have found on the web as a recommendation)? If so, is the OS surviving acceptably? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From:

...they haven't made it to "long term support" distributions yet. For now, what has to be done to shrink qcow[2] partitions (raw works) is (regardless of client OS, for Windows defragment is first used followed by resizing the partitions in Disk Management then finally Sysinternals' sdelete to zero disk space - I have used this process and it works but with surprises): defragment (even Linux, look into e2defrag, shake, a defrag script or e4defrag - can be found on the web, haven't used them, YMMV), zero disk space, resize the partition, then use qemu-img to convert to raw (or even...

I have a Windows 2000 domU running in an LVM partition. I need to move it to another host, but none of my other xen servers have lvm or free space to create an lvm. So I''d like to convert it to a sparse img file. The file system in the domU is ntfs. Can anyone suggest how to do this? Thanks, James _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list

Hello, All! virtio-win.iso contains two different Windows drivers. these Windows Server 2012 R2 drivers have different hardware IDs: \vioscsi\2k12R2\amd64\vioscsi.inf "Red Hat VirtIO SCSI pass-through controller" PCI\VEN_1AF4&DEV_1004&SUBSYS_00081AF4&REV_00 PCI\VEN_1AF4&DEV_1048&SUBSYS_11001AF4&REV_01 \viostor\2k12R2\amd64\viostor.inf "Red Hat VirtIO SCSI