On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 04:44:14AM -0400, Allon Mureinik wrote:
> Hi Sven, 
> 
> Have you tried qemu-img? 
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> > ----- Original Message -----
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> > > From: "Sven Knohsalla" <s.knohsa...@netbiscuits.com>
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> > > To: users@ovirt.org
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> > > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 5:48:45 PM
> > 
> > > Subject: [Users] How to resize physical disk size with virt-p2v
> > 
> 
> > > Hi,
> > 
> > > we’re currently using oVirt engine3.0 and have about 50 VMs
> > > successfully running ( thanks for your great work!!)
> > 
> 
> > > At the moment we do migrate ESX/KVM VMs and baremetal servers to
> > > oVirt.
> > 
> > > For p2v migration we’re using virt-p2v 0.87 (iso created from rpm
> > > virt-p2v-image-builder)
> > 
> > > Migration is working fine, but the vdisk size is accordingly to
> > > original physical hdd size.
> > 
> > > For example:
> > 
> > > Server with 500 GB HDD size, partitions (swap,/,boot) shrinked to
> > > ~50
> > > GB.
> > 
> > > (df –h will show only 50 GB for / )
> > 
> 
> > > First I thought, shrinking partitions of the server will help out,
> > 
> > > But unfortunately, the tool is using the whole hard disk space to
> > > convert (using dd ?)
> > 
> > > …and so we have a successfully migrated VM in oVirt with 500GB vHDD
> > > size.
> > 
> 
> > > Is there any way or alternative software we can use for P2V
> > > migration?
> > 
> 
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > > Sven.
> > 
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Hi, 

Maybe you can try using clonezilla to only export the partitions of your 
physical machine. Unless they take the full disk of course.

Vincent
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