[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#512773: Bug#512773: [virt-manager] Unable to create a non-sparse image file from the VM creation wizard

[Guido Günther]

reassign 512773 virtinst

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 06:24:51PM +0100, Laurent Léonard wrote:
> > > nonsparse # XXX: since it hoses libvirtd (for now) alloc = 0
> >
> > Does setting alloc = 1 work for you?
> >  -- Guido
> 
> cap = capacity size
> alloc = allocation size
Sure. Sorry for not reading things more carefully. There's a new
virtinst in experimental but it still has the same code.

> So to have a non-sparse image, "alloc" should have the same value as "cap". 
> But in the current version of virtinst, the line "alloc = cap" is commented 
> out and replaced by "alloc = 0", so the behaviour is the same as an sparse 
> image file, but I don't know the reason of this (I don't understand the 
> comment)...
There's a new libvirt release pending in the next couple of days, let's
see if this changes things (the comment suggests so). If not I'll try to
find the time to have a closer look.
 -- Guido
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