[ovirt-users]Re: qcow on LVM‽ Why‽

2020-03-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi all, calmer now, sorry for the initial mail, but I was under some pressure. Strahil Nikolov dixit: > What are you actually trying to do ? Are you trying to sparsify your > VM's disks ? No, not at all. The thing I really needed to do is to prepare a VM on an oVirt system then export

[ovirt-users]Re: qcow on LVM‽ Why‽

2020-03-05 Thread Nir Soffer
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 6:13 PM Thorsten Glaser wrote: ... > I was shrinking a hard disc: first the filesystems inside the VM, > then the partitions inside the VM, then the LV This is the point where you probably corrupted your image. oVirt does not support shrinking existing disks. If you want

[ovirt-users]Re: qcow on LVM‽ Why‽

2020-03-05 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 5:12 PM Thorsten Glaser wrote: > H > Does ovirt handle raw images on LV, and if so, how can we enable > this for new VMs? If not, whyever the hell not? And whose “great” > idea was this anyway? > > BTW: as you can see from the documentation link I sent in the previous

[ovirt-users]Re: qcow on LVM‽ Why‽

2020-03-05 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 5:12 PM Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Hi *, > > I’m a bit frustrated, so please excuse any harshness in this mail. > I try... ;-) > Whose idea was it to place qcow on logical volumes anyway? > Not mine: I'm a final user and sometimes a contributor for ideas/solutions... and

[ovirt-users]Re: qcow on LVM‽ Why‽

2020-03-04 Thread Strahil Nikolov
On March 4, 2020 6:05:14 PM GMT+02:00, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >Hi *, > >I’m a bit frustrated, so please excuse any harshness in this mail. > >Whose idea was it to place qcow on logical volumes anyway? > >I was shrinking a hard disc: first the filesystems inside the VM, >then the partitions