Re: [libvirt-users] Reintroduce "allocate entire disk" checkbox on virt-manager

2018-06-28 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 28-06-2018 12:44 Daniel P. Berrangé ha scritto: There is always a performance distinction between raw and qcow2, but it is much less these days with qcow2v3 than it was with the original qcow2 design. Sure, but especially with random reads/writes over large LBA range the difference is noti

Re: [libvirt-users] Reintroduce "allocate entire disk" checkbox on virt-manager

2018-06-28 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 12:35:56PM +0200, Gionatan Danti wrote: > Il 26-06-2018 23:49 Cole Robinson ha scritto: > > I see it as another test case and larger UI surface in the common path > > for something that will save clicks for a corner case. I still don't see > > it asworth exposing in the UI.

Re: [libvirt-users] Reintroduce "allocate entire disk" checkbox on virt-manager

2018-06-28 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 26-06-2018 23:49 Cole Robinson ha scritto: I see it as another test case and larger UI surface in the common path for something that will save clicks for a corner case. I still don't see it asworth exposing in the UI. - Cole I can not force this decision, obviously. However, let me recap

Re: [libvirt-users] Reintroduce "allocate entire disk" checkbox on virt-manager

2018-06-26 Thread Cole Robinson
On 06/19/2018 07:06 PM, Gionatan Danti wrote: > Il 19-06-2018 22:16 Cole Robinson ha scritto: >> Sorry, I misunderstood. You can still achieve what you want but it's >> more clicks: new vm, manage storage, add volume, and select raw volume >> with whatever capacity you want but with 0 allocation. >

Re: [libvirt-users] Reintroduce "allocate entire disk" checkbox on virt-manager

2018-06-22 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 20-06-2018 01:06 Gionatan Danti ha scritto: Il 19-06-2018 22:16 Cole Robinson ha scritto: Sorry, I misunderstood. You can still achieve what you want but it's more clicks: new vm, manage storage, add volume, and select raw volume with whatever capacity you want but with 0 allocation. Sure,

Re: [libvirt-users] Reintroduce "allocate entire disk" checkbox on virt-manager

2018-06-19 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 19-06-2018 22:16 Cole Robinson ha scritto: Sorry, I misunderstood. You can still achieve what you want but it's more clicks: new vm, manage storage, add volume, and select raw volume with whatever capacity you want but with 0 allocation. Sure, but the automatic disk creation is very handy an

Re: [libvirt-users] Reintroduce "allocate entire disk" checkbox on virt-manager

2018-06-19 Thread Cole Robinson
On 06/19/2018 03:37 PM, Gionatan Danti wrote: > Il 19-06-2018 20:14 Cole Robinson ha scritto: >> If you change the disk image format from qcow2 to raw in >> Edit->Preferences, then new disk images are set to fully allocated raw. >> Check the image details with 'qemu-img info $filename' to confirm.

Re: [libvirt-users] Reintroduce "allocate entire disk" checkbox on virt-manager

2018-06-19 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 19-06-2018 20:14 Cole Robinson ha scritto: If you change the disk image format from qcow2 to raw in Edit->Preferences, then new disk images are set to fully allocated raw. Check the image details with 'qemu-img info $filename' to confirm. So I think by default we are doing what you want? - Co

Re: [libvirt-users] Reintroduce "allocate entire disk" checkbox on virt-manager

2018-06-19 Thread Cole Robinson
On 06/18/2018 04:05 PM, Gionatan Danti wrote: > Hi list, > on older virt-manager versions (ie: what shipped with RHEL 6), a > checkbox called "allocate entire disk" was selectable when configuring a > new virtual machine. When checked, it means that the RAW disk image file > was entirely allocated,

[libvirt-users] Reintroduce "allocate entire disk" checkbox on virt-manager

2018-06-18 Thread Gionatan Danti
Hi list, on older virt-manager versions (ie: what shipped with RHEL 6), a checkbox called "allocate entire disk" was selectable when configuring a new virtual machine. When checked, it means that the RAW disk image file was entirely allocated, generally issuing a fallocate() call. When uncheck