rhel kvm qcow2 sparse/incremental storage
by red.hive from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4X0SV)
Hello everyone,
Thank you for having me here.
I have been a user of vmware for a very long time. Now I am trying to switch to KVM, using RHELs virtual machine manager GUI to create the VMs. I have encountered two problems and I was wondering if you could help me.
1 - I can't get it to fit the screen, it stays like a square in the middle. In vmware this is fixed with vmtools. I searched the internet on how to do it for kvm auto fit window but I didn't find anything. Any ideas?
2 - I didn't find a way to set incremental disk size, it pre-allocates all the space and it is not good for me. I want it sparse/incremental, not pre-allocated as I don't have much space. In vmware GUI they give you the choice, in KVM I didn't find a way to do it. Any ideas?
The host is RHEL 8 and the guest will be RHEL 7.7
Many thanks!
red.hive
Thank you for having me here.
I have been a user of vmware for a very long time. Now I am trying to switch to KVM, using RHELs virtual machine manager GUI to create the VMs. I have encountered two problems and I was wondering if you could help me.
1 - I can't get it to fit the screen, it stays like a square in the middle. In vmware this is fixed with vmtools. I searched the internet on how to do it for kvm auto fit window but I didn't find anything. Any ideas?
2 - I didn't find a way to set incremental disk size, it pre-allocates all the space and it is not good for me. I want it sparse/incremental, not pre-allocated as I don't have much space. In vmware GUI they give you the choice, in KVM I didn't find a way to do it. Any ideas?
The host is RHEL 8 and the guest will be RHEL 7.7
Many thanks!
red.hive