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Hello, I'm using libvirt to deploy a series of 7 KVM (in qcow2 format) sequentially. The base image of the qcow2 is an ubuntu server. The environment where i am doing this is a Live USB Ubuntu with a persistence file (so that changes made remain). So, my problem: * If the persistence file (i.e. free disk space in the live ubuntu) is up to around 1.5GB, the qemu process of launching the

I guess I need the list again. I try to install my first KVM guest. Here is what I do, and finally, what I stumble on. First I created a qcow2 img: # qemu-img create -f qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images/test1.img 15G And I created a network bridge (not essential here) To get a text-based install, I followed this how-to:

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 02:06:54PM -0500, Andrew Martin wrote: > Hello, > > I am running several virtualization servers with QEMU 1.4.x and > libvirt 1.0.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 and am working on optimizing the cache= > and aio= options for the virtual machines. These VM images are mostly > qcow2, and are served both from a local ext4 filesystem (with > data=ordered,barrier) and

When using oVirt >= 4.3, we can enable the NBD based backend in imageio by specifying that we transfer raw data when creating a transfer. With   the NBD backend, we can import to disks using qcow2 format. To make it work, we override output#transfer_format to return always raw format, but we create the disk on RHV side using qcow2 format. The pipeline looks like this: qemu-img convert

On 12/09/2013 09:03 PM, lyz_pro@163.com wrote: > Hi all > > I have a problem when I use `virsh attach` to attach a qcow2 disk to vm without argument --subdirver=qcow2 > and this makes the qcow2 disk become a raw format disk, and the data in this disk is missing in guest os > and also I have used guestmout to confirm this, the same result. The format of a file is important. By

On 11/06/2014 03:45 PM, Francesco Morosinotto wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm trying to implement in the non profit organization where I work a > backup strategy for our VMs. > > At the moment I weekly backup the machine (on sunday nights) by stopping > the vm, making a snapshot, exporting the xml descriptor file and syncing > these files to a remote backup server.

Occasionally this test will choose a random seed which results in an all-zeroes disk. The test tries to convert this to a compressed qcow2 file, and fails because no compressed clusters are detected in the resulting file. This happens because qcow2 stores zero clusters with a special sparse representation, they are never stored compressed, so a disk with only zeroes in it will never contain

On 8/8/23 00:28, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Occasionally this test will choose a random seed which results in an > all-zeroes disk. The test tries to convert this to a compressed qcow2 > file, and fails because no compressed clusters are detected in the > resulting file. This happens because qcow2 stores zero clusters with > a special sparse representation, they are never stored

Hi all I have a problem when I use `virsh attach` to attach a qcow2 disk to vm without argument --subdirver=qcow2 and this makes the qcow2 disk become a raw format disk, and the data in this disk is missing in guest os and also I have used guestmout to confirm this, the same result. Is there any way to let me find back the data in this disk ? the version of libvirt and kvm is : Compiled

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thank you a lot for your reply; > You should really consider using libvirt live snapshots. With new > enough libvirt and qemu, you can even get optimal behavior with no guest > downtime. This topic comes up frequently on the list; for example, a > quick search found this in the archives: > >

For the appliance of the QCOW2 format, get the UUID of the disk by reading the first 256k bytes with 'qemu-img dd' command. Then pass the read block to the 'file' command. In case of failure, run the 'file' command again directly. Suggested-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrey Shinkevich <andrey.shinkevich@virtuozzo.com> ---

Hello, I am running several virtualization servers with QEMU 1.4.x and libvirt 1.0.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 and am working on optimizing the cache= and aio= options for the virtual machines. These VM images are mostly qcow2, and are served both from a local ext4 filesystem (with data=ordered,barrier) and from an NFS mountpoint (with sync). The local filesystem sits on top of an md software RAID of SATA

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 07:48:52AM +0300, Andrey Shinkevich wrote: > For the appliance of the QCOW2 format, the function get_root_uuid() > fails to get the UUID of the disk image. > In this case, let us read the first 256k bytes of the disk image with > the 'qemu-img dd' command. Then pass the read block to the 'file' > command. > > Suggested-by: Denis V.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 03:52:34PM +0300, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: > 12.08.2020 15:39, Andrey Shinkevich wrote: > >For the appliance of the QCOW2 format, get the UUID of the disk by > >reading the first 256k bytes with 'qemu-img dd' command. Then pass the > >read block to the 'file' command. In case of failure, run the 'file' > >command

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 04:12:28PM +0300, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: > 12.08.2020 15:52, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: > >12.08.2020 15:39, Andrey Shinkevich wrote: > >>For the appliance of the QCOW2 format, get the UUID of the disk by > >>reading the first 256k bytes with 'qemu-img dd' command. Then pass the > >>read block to the

Add support for qcow2 disk format, enabled by imageio NBD backend in RHV 4.3. To use this feature manually, you can run virt-v2v with "-of qcow2". Here is example run: Source disk: $ qemu-img info /var/tmp/fedora-30.img image: /var/tmp/fedora-30.img file format: raw virtual size: 6 GiB (6442450944 bytes) disk size: 1.15 GiB virt-v2v: $ ./run virt-v2v \ -v \ -i disk

I''m trying to create a pv guest with qcow/qcow2 disk image by xl, it always fails atlibxl_device_disk_local_attach. #xl create pv_config_file libxl: error: libxl.c:1119:libxl_device_disk_local_attach: cannot locally attach a qdisk image if the format is not raw libxl: error: libxl_create.c:467:do_domain_create: failed to run bootloader: -3 Does that mean we cannot create such a pv guest

For the appliance of the QCOW2 format, get the UUID of the disk by reading the first 256k bytes with 'qemu-img dd' command. Then pass the read block to the 'file' command. In case of failure, run the 'file' command again directly. Suggested-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrey Shinkevich <andrey.shinkevich@virtuozzo.com> --- v2: 01: The

For the appliance of the QCOW2 format, the function get_root_uuid() fails to get the UUID of the disk image. In this case, let us read the first 256k bytes of the disk image with the 'qemu-img dd' command. Then pass the read block to the 'file' command. Suggested-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrey Shinkevich <andrey.shinkevich@virtuozzo.com> ---

Hi everybody, I'm trying to implement in the non profit organization where I work a backup strategy for our VMs. At the moment I weekly backup the machine (on sunday nights) by stopping the vm, making a snapshot, exporting the xml descriptor file and syncing these files to a remote backup server. I would really like to make daily snapshot without shutting down the vms. at the moment the vms