On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 06:01:05AM +0000, Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 wrote: > Hi Alon, > > Do you have any idea about this issue? We doubt this issue is caused by the > Windows swap file(virtual memory) that Windows OS pages the memory contents > to it during the run-time. However, we did disable the swap file setting from > Windows. The image size of the instance VM still keeps growing. Can you tell > us what area we need to study so as to attack this issue if you know it? > Thanks. >
Hi Charles, I assume the image is getting bigger because the guest is doing writes - try checking what is writing in the guest. You could also ask on qemu-devel which is more appropriate for general qemu questions. Alon > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 3:17 PM > To: 'Alon Levy'; Yonit Halperin > Cc: spice-de...@freedesktop.org; Jonah.Wu-吳君勉-研究發展部 > Subject: Image size of the instance VM (qcow2 format) > > Hi Alon, > > We created a qcow2 based-image for a VM whose size is bigger when it is > created. When a VM is launched, it is a instance VM image which > refers to the based-image. Initially, the image size of instance VM is > smaller than that of the based-mage. But we found the image size of > the instance VM kept growing, when a VM ran in idle state. The image size of > instance VM is supposed to remain in a smaller size than the > based-image. How come it keeps growing in size? Is it a normal issue? _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
