Thanks for sharing your thought. just learn from some where, that "creating disk with virt-install can only create raw on the other hand qcow2 first needs to be initiated as volume"
Thanks, On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:45:26AM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > Book teaches us to create volume first then assign it to vm with > > Virt-install command however, we can also create image on runtime with > > virt-install command. we do not need volume to be set before creating a > VM. > > so my question is what is the difference b/w the two methods. > > if i create Volume first then assign or if i create image directly from > > virt-installl command what are the pros and cons. > > I think it's mostly six of one and half a dozen of the other. If you are > not using sparse volumes, disk creation can take quite a lot of time, so > it might be logistically easier to batch the creation of a lot of > volumes before you start installing VMs, especially if you need to > re-run the install process a few times as you tweak parameters. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140324102840.gb...@bryant.redmars.org > >
