Bug 887826 - RFE: virt-sparsify cannot handle multi-disk virtual machines (eg. if they use LVM, MD, LDM, etc)
Summary: RFE: virt-sparsify cannot handle multi-disk virtual machines (eg. if they use...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: libguestfs
Version: unspecified
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Assignee: Richard W.M. Jones
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Reported: 2012-12-17 12:22 UTC by Richard W.M. Jones
Modified: 2021-04-19 10:34 UTC (History)
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2012-12-17 12:22:53 UTC
Description of problem:

virt-sparsify takes 'indisk' and 'outdisk' parameters.  This
is a problem for multi-disk virtual machines, especially ones
using LVM, MD, LDM or other volume management where a single
filesystem might be spread over multiple disks.

I have a 3 disk Windows VM using LDM that simply cannot be
sparsified properly, because it's not possible to mount the
LDM partitions that take up the majority of the disk space.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libguestfs 1.21.0

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-12-17 12:43:27 UTC
I documented the problem upstream:
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/6f02e33c6fbf2f14ba11ef07cb078ad6f6b2fea3
(Note this is just documentation, NOT a fix)


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