** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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qemu-img baseimage creation doesn't warn for image being smaller
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/565659
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You're right. the descriptive text is wrong. In fact, I was typing the
bug report up very quickly.
I did not want to change the size of the base image. Basically I just
wanted to checkpoint my machine. So in fact, I couldn't bother less
about the size and I thought qemu-img made me. But now I've j
"should really raise a warning if ../base-dont-touch.img is smaller than 10GB"
Here you are saying if the forked image is larger than the base image.
"If QEmu doesn't handle a differnent size, even a bigger one, I don't see why
qemu-img create -b ... should take a size argument at all."
I just sh
It's qcow2 and increasing size is not what the problem is. The problem
is, if the forked image is smaller than the base image. In that case,
qemu-img should not create the image in first place.
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qemu-img baseimage creation doesn't warn for image being smaller
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/565
What image format is the base image?
I just tested with qcow2 format and increased the size from 6g to 10g just fine
(of course the file system size remained the same)
kvm-img create -b Lucid_64_Base.qcow2 -f qcow2 test_img.qcow2 10G
If you don't specify a format I think raw is used:
kvm-img cre
** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
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qemu-img baseimage creation doesn't warn for image being smaller
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/565659
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