From 34b37ef8ed35731b0cfed0cf6cb07ea48b89b96f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rohit Yadav Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 18:35:09 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] CLOUDSTACK-1340: Compress QCOW2 for KVM As suggested by Marcus, by compression qcow2, we end up having smaller disk image. I'm still archiving the qcow2 as bz2 because our installation manual still ask users to cloud-install-sys-tmplt which expects a *.qcow2.bz2 Signed-off-by: Rohit Yadav --- tools/appliance/build.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/appliance/build.sh b/tools/appliance/build.sh index caa380565fe..69e15d88ca7 100644 --- a/tools/appliance/build.sh +++ b/tools/appliance/build.sh @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ echo "$appliance exported for Xen: dist/$appliance-$build_date-$branch-xen.vhd.b # Export for KVM vboxmanage internalcommands converttoraw "$hdd_path" raw.img -qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 raw.img $appliance-$build_date-$branch-kvm.qcow2 +qemu-img convert -f raw -c -O qcow2 raw.img $appliance-$build_date-$branch-kvm.qcow2 rm raw.img bzip2 $appliance-$build_date-$branch-kvm.qcow2 echo "$appliance exported for KVM: dist/$appliance-$build_date-$branch-kvm.qcow2.bz2"