the first 30lines output from orignal image:
1 [ 0] 128/ 4096000 sectors allocated at
offset 0.000000 bytes (1)
2 [ 65536] 1920/ 4095872 sectors not allocated at
offset 64 KiB (0)
3 [ 1048576] 128/ 4093952 sectors allocated at
offset 1 MiB (1)
4 [ 1114112] 128/ 4093824 sectors allocated at
offset 1 MiB (1)
5 [ 1179648] 128/ 4093696 sectors allocated at
offset 1 MiB (1)
6 [ 1245184] 128/ 4093568 sectors allocated at
offset 1 MiB (1)
7 [ 1310720] 256/ 4093440 sectors not allocated at
offset 1 MiB (0)
8 [ 1441792] 128/ 4093184 sectors allocated at
offset 1 MiB (1)
9 [ 1507328] 1792/ 4093056 sectors not allocated at
offset 1 MiB (0)
10 [ 2424832] 128/ 4091264 sectors allocated at
offset 2 MiB (1)
11 [ 2490368] 2560/ 4091136 sectors not allocated at
offset 2 MiB (0)
12 [ 3801088] 128/ 4088576 sectors allocated at
offset 4 MiB (1)
13 [ 3866624] 512/ 4088448 sectors allocated at
offset 4 MiB (1)
14 [ 4128768] 128/ 4087936 sectors allocated at
offset 4 MiB (1)
15 [ 4194304] 128/ 4087808 sectors allocated at
offset 4 MiB (1)
16 [ 4259840] 128/ 4087680 sectors allocated at
offset 4 MiB (1)
17 [ 4325376] 128/ 4087552 sectors allocated at
offset 4 MiB (1)
18 [ 4390912] 128/ 4087424 sectors allocated at
offset 4 MiB (1)
19 [ 4456448] 128/ 4087296 sectors allocated at
offset 4 MiB (1)
20 [ 4521984] 128/ 4087168 sectors allocated at
offset 4 MiB (1)
21 [ 4587520] 128/ 4087040 sectors allocated at
offset 4 MiB (1)
22 [ 4653056] 128/ 4086912 sectors allocated at
offset 4 MiB (1)
23 [ 4718592] 128/ 4086784 sectors allocated at
offset 4 MiB (1)
24 [ 4784128] 640/ 4086656 sectors allocated at
offset 5 MiB (1)
25 [ 5111808] 128/ 4086016 sectors allocated at
offset 5 MiB (1)
26 [ 5177344] 128/ 4085888 sectors allocated at
offset 5 MiB (1)
27 [ 5242880] 4096/ 4085760 sectors not allocated at
offset 5 MiB (0)
28 [ 7340032] 128/ 4081664 sectors allocated at
offset 7 MiB (1)
29 [ 7405568] 128/ 4081536 sectors allocated at
offset 7 MiB (1)
30 [ 7471104] 128/ 4081408 sectors allocated at
offset 7 MiB (1)
the first 30lines output from modify image:
1 [ 0] 128/ 4096000 sectors allocated at
offset 0.000000 bytes (1)
2 [ 65536] 1920/ 4095872 sectors not allocated at
offset 64 KiB (0)
3 [ 1048576] 512/ 4093952 sectors allocated at
offset 1 MiB (1)
4 [ 1310720] 256/ 4093440 sectors not allocated at
offset 1 MiB (0)
5 [ 1441792] 128/ 4093184 sectors allocated at
offset 1 MiB (1)
6 [ 1507328] 1792/ 4093056 sectors not allocated at
offset 1 MiB (0)
7 [ 2424832] 128/ 4091264 sectors allocated at
offset 2 MiB (1)
8 [ 2490368] 2560/ 4091136 sectors not allocated at
offset 2 MiB (0)
9 [ 3801088] 2816/ 4088576 sectors allocated at
offset 4 MiB (1)
10 [ 5242880] 4096/ 4085760 sectors not allocated at
offset 5 MiB (0)
11 [ 7340032] 4224/ 4081664 sectors allocated at
offset 7 MiB (1)
12 [ 9502720] 128/ 4077440 sectors not allocated at
offset 9 MiB (0)
13 [ 9568256] 896/ 4077312 sectors allocated at
offset 9 MiB (1)
14 [ 10027008] 896/ 4076416 sectors not allocated at
offset 10 MiB (0)
15 [ 10485760] 8320/ 4075520 sectors allocated at
offset 10 MiB (1)
16 [ 14745600] 1920/ 4067200 sectors not allocated at
offset 14 MiB (0)
17 [ 15728640] 4480/ 4065280 sectors allocated at
offset 15 MiB (1)
18 [ 18022400] 16000/ 4060800 sectors not allocated at
offset 17 MiB (0)
19 [ 26214400] 128/ 4044800 sectors allocated at
offset 25 MiB (1)
20 [ 26279936] 12160/ 4044672 sectors not allocated at
offset 25 MiB (0)
21 [ 32505856] 12416/ 4032512 sectors allocated at
offset 31 MiB (1)
22 [ 38862848] 3840/ 4020096 sectors not allocated at
offset 37 MiB (0)
23 [ 40828928] 1280/ 4016256 sectors allocated at
offset 39 MiB (1)
24 [ 41484288] 384/ 4014976 sectors not allocated at
offset 40 MiB (0)
25 [ 41680896] 128/ 4014592 sectors allocated at
offset 40 MiB (1)
26 [ 41746432] 7040/ 4014464 sectors not allocated at
offset 40 MiB (0)
27 [ 45350912] 640/ 4007424 sectors allocated at
offset 43 MiB (1)
28 [ 45678592] 7040/ 4006784 sectors not allocated at
offset 44 MiB (0)
29 [ 49283072] 128/ 3999744 sectors allocated at
offset 47 MiB (1)
30 [ 49348608] 384/ 3999616 sectors not allocated at
offset 47 MiB (0)
they are different.
what caused the problem ?
xuanmao_001
From: Kevin Wolf
Date: 2013-09-11 16:28
To: xuanmao_001
CC: qemu-devel; qemu-discuss
Subject: Re: qemu-img convert will increase the VM image
Am 11.09.2013 um 09:14 hat xuanmao_001 geschrieben:
> Hi, all:
>
> I have question about qemu-img convert ...
>
> I have a orignal image with following information:
> # qemu-img info ori.qcow2
> image: ori.qcow2
> file format: qcow2
> virtual size: 2.0G (2097152000 bytes)
> disk size: 308M
> cluster_size: 65536
>
> when I executed with "qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O qcow2 ori.qcow2 new.qcow2"
> the new.qcow2 like following:
> # qemu-img info new.qcow2
> image: new.qcow2
> file format: qcow2
> virtual size: 2.0G (2097152000 bytes)
> disk size: 748M
> cluster_size: 65536
>
> so, my question is why the image size increased after my operation?
You can try comparing the output of the qemu-io 'map' command for both
images.
Kevin
