[ovirt-users] qcow2 as default disk format

2015-02-04 Thread shimano
Hi,

Is it possible to set qcow2 as default format of disk image in oVirt 3.5.1?
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Re: [ovirt-users] qcow2 as default disk format

2015-02-04 Thread Daniel Helgenberger
Hello,

AFAIK cow images are currently not configurable via GUI and cannot be 
set as default disk format. IIRC the reason being RAW and sparse are 
providing better performance (until you try to copy a larger disk image...).

However, you can add qcow - disks with ovirt shell and use these images:

$ add disk \
--vm-identifier vm_name \
--provisioned_size size_in_bytes \
--interface virtio \
--name disk_name \
--format cow \
--sparse true \
--storage_domains-storage_domain 
storage_domain.name=storage_domain_name


On 04.02.2015 18:56, shimano wrote:
 Hi,

 Is it possible to set qcow2 as default format of disk image in oVirt 3.5.1?


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