Adding options for qcow2 output ?

Laura Smith n5d9xq3ti233xiyif2vp at protonmail.ch
Tue Apr 9 18:17:45 CEST 2024


Hi Thoma

I see. Thank you, I'll try that.

Laura

On Tuesday, 9 April 2024 at 16:46, Thomas Lange <lange at cs.uni-koeln.de> wrote:

> Hi Laura,
> 
> with fai-diskimage you can't add options for qcow2. But you can create
> a raw image and then manually convert it to qcow2 using any options
> you like. In the end fai-diskimage is also just creating a raw image
> and converts this to qcow2 using
> 
> qemu-img convert -f raw $rawname -O -c -o compression_type=zstd qcow2 $qcowname
> 
> > > > > > On Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:14:07 +0000, Laura Smith via linux-fai linux-fai at uni-koeln.de said:
> 
> 
> 
> > Hi
> 
> > How do I set the "preallocation=off" qcow2 option on the output for fai-diskimage ?
> 
> 
> --
> viele Grüße Thomas


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