Thanks a lot Lucian for your kind help. Yes you are right we are using thin-provisioned QCOW2 files.
In that case what remedy we can use ? Thanks. -Guru -----Original Message----- From: Nux! [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 15 April 2014 15:21 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: /var/lib/libvirt/images the file system getting full issue On 15.04.2014 04:34, Gurudatta Shinde wrote: > Hi team , > > I am Linux/cloud Engineer working in Tomtom. We are facing an issue > for our hypervisors for file system /var/lib/libvirt/images . > > This file system contains the Virtual image disks of guest running on > Hypervisor. As we going on deploying Guests , it gets full. We are > looking for a way how we can have to less space. > > So that we can manage them on host itself. > > Can anyone please help us out here ? Kindly let us know if need > additional info to fix this problem. Hello, I imagine you are using thin-provisioned QCOW2 files, right? In this case there is not really much you can do. One thing that comes to mind is to use virt-sparsify on these files, but it requires the VMs to be shut down during operation. Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro
