[libvirt-users] preallocation=full Vs preallocation=metadata

2015-06-01 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi All I was reading through this: http://kashyapc.com/2011/12/02/little-more-disk-io-perf-improvement-with-fallocateing-a-qcow2-disk/ I was basically searching for pointers on improving disk I/O. I wanted to know the purpose of preallocation=full & preallocation=metadata , What is the differ

Re: [libvirt-users] Bug in Snapshot Removing

2015-06-01 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 10:56:40PM +, Soeren Malchow wrote: > Dear all > > I am not sure if the mail just did not get any attention between all > the mails and this time it is also going to the libvirt mailing list. Saw your mails, but it was hard to parse them. > I am experiencing a problem

[libvirt-users] Bug in Snapshot Removing

2015-06-01 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear all I am not sure if the mail just did not get any attention between all the mails and this time it is also going to the libvirt mailing list. I am experiencing a problem with VM becoming unresponsive when removing Snapshots (Live Merge) and i think there is a serious problem. Here are th

Re: [libvirt-users] snapshots and vmdk

2015-06-01 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 11:24:49AM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 02:35:51AM +, Boylan, Ross wrote: > > Does libvirt support snapshotting when the virtual disk comes from a > > vmdk file? Also, Stefan Hajnoczi from the QEMU project, points out: QEMU's implementa

Re: [libvirt-users] snapshots and vmdk

2015-06-01 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 02:35:51AM +, Boylan, Ross wrote: > Does libvirt support snapshotting when the virtual disk comes from a > vmdk file? >From my quick test (refer below), seems like you can at-least use VMDK as a backing file. > http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Snapshots#Desired_functionali

[libvirt-users] FW: [ovirt-users] Bug in Snapshot Removing

2015-06-01 Thread Soeren Malchow
And sorry, another update, it does kill the VM partly, it was still pingable when i wrote the last mail, but no ssh and no spice console possible From: Soeren Malchow mailto:soeren.malc...@mcon.net>> Date: Monday 1 June 2015 01:35 To: Soeren Malchow mailto:soeren.malc...@mcon.net>>, "libvirt-us