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The idea of migration with VIR_MIGRATE_PARAM_MIGRATE_DISKS_DETECT_ZEROES populated is to sparsify the image. The QEMU NBD client as it was configured in commit 621f879adf98e2c93ac5c8c869733a57f06cd9aa would signal to the destination to do thick allocation of holes which would result in a non-sparse image for any backend except a qcow2 image which I used to test it. Switch to VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_DETECT_ZEROES_UNMAP and VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_DISCARD_UNMAP which tells the NBD client (and that in turn the NBD server) to preserve the sparse blocks it detected from the image. Fixes: 621f879adf98e2c93ac5c8c869733a57f06cd9aa Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Libvirt API for virtualization
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:
License
The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser
General Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code
that are not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU
General Public License, version 2.0 (or later). See the files
COPYING.LESSER and COPYING for full license
terms & conditions.
Installation
Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/compiling.html
Contributing
The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
Contact
The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:
- users@lists.libvirt.org (for user discussions)
- devel@lists.libvirt.org (for development only)
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