[Qemu-devel] Merging backing file with new image

2012-04-01 Thread PANKAJ RAWAT
Hi all i am using qcow2 image format , I create a backing file and to the new image i preform some I/O qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b snap1 guestqcow2 Now I wanted to merge snap1 with guestqcow2. Is their is any command which can merge both disk into one single file -- *Pankaj Rawat*

[Qemu-devel] Merging backing file with new image

2012-04-01 Thread PANKAJ RAWAT
Hi all, -- *Pankaj Rawat*

[Qemu-devel] I/O in backing file

2012-03-29 Thread PANKAJ RAWAT
Hi all, I am currently using backing file.The question of my concern is regarding the I/O operation Now when we create a external snapshot in qcow2, a new file is created leaving the original file as backing file * Can any one tell,*how the I/O is performed in detail way?. Means when the new snap

[Qemu-devel] I/O in backing file

2012-03-27 Thread PANKAJ RAWAT
Hi all, I am currently using backing file.The question of my concern is regarding the I/O operation Now when we create a external snapshot in qcow2, a new file is created leaving the original file as backing file * Can any one tell,*how the I/O is performed in detail way?. Means when the new snap

[Qemu-devel] Internal Snapshot disappear after write operation

2012-03-22 Thread PANKAJ RAWAT
any one explain why it is happening ? and how can i fix it ? -- *Pankaj Rawat*

Re: [Qemu-devel] tuning parameters qed

2012-03-13 Thread PANKAJ RAWAT
Thanks for the reply . we can change the cluster_size by *qemu-img* command but how can we change* L1/L2 table size *? On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:12 AM, PANKAJ RAWAT > wrote: > > Hi all i have a kvm machine and i use qed f

[Qemu-devel] tuning parameters qed

2012-03-12 Thread PANKAJ RAWAT
Hi all i have a kvm machine and i use qed format as the disk image format I want to improve the I/O performance of my machine can anyone tell other then cluster_size and cache what are the tunining parameters for qed so that i can improve the performance of my VM ? -- *Pankaj Rawat*

Re: [Qemu-devel] regarding qcow2metadata

2012-03-11 Thread PANKAJ RAWAT
yes ofcourse here is the output *[root@t06 p]# ls -lsh* *total 1.4M* *1.4M -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.1G Mar 12 09:10 guest* On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Mulyadi Santosa wrote: > have you double checked by using "ls -lsh" command? :) > -- *Pankaj Rawat*

[Qemu-devel] Live migration qed

2012-03-07 Thread PANKAJ RAWAT
Hi all can anyone tell how i can migrate a VM (qed disk format)? what is the process by which can we migrate the image from one KVM to another ? -- *Pankaj Rawat*

[Qemu-devel] regarding qcow2metadata

2012-03-06 Thread PANKAJ RAWAT
size ? i.e 4GB will be allocated and rest 4GB can be allocated dynamically -- *Pankaj Rawat*

[Qemu-devel] Backing file Explanation ?

2012-02-23 Thread PANKAJ RAWAT
Hi all can anoyone explain about backing file? How it is written and in which fashion ? and what role it plays when the clusters are allocated ?

Re: [Qemu-devel] Cluster_size parameter issue on qcow2 image format

2012-02-23 Thread PANKAJ RAWAT
Thanks for the reply On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:02 AM, PANKAJ RAWAT > wrote: > > Is the degrade in performance is only due to allocation of large cluster > > during expansion of qcow2 image ? > > > > Bu

Re: [Qemu-devel] Cluster_size parameter issue on qcow2 image format

2012-02-23 Thread PANKAJ RAWAT
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:01:46AM +0530, PANKAJ RAWAT wrote: > > I theory regarding cluster size it is written that as the size of > cluster > > increase performance should increase. > > > > But something surprising happen The performance is degrading as the size >

[Qemu-devel] effect of cluster_size on qcow2 performance during expansion

2012-02-23 Thread PANKAJ RAWAT
size : 64K697Mb/sec** (aggrb MB/sec)* * Cluster size : 1M 440Mb/sec* *(aggrb MB/sec)* * * * Cluster size : 2M 289Mb/sec** (aggrb MB/sec)* as in above it can bee seen that the 64k is performing better can any one tell why ? -- *Pankaj Rawat*

[Qemu-devel] Cluster_size parameter issue on qcow2 image format

2012-02-22 Thread PANKAJ RAWAT
Hi all I have been working o the qcow2 image format , I theory regarding cluster size it is written that as the size of cluster increase performance should increase. But something surprising happen The performance is degrading as the size of cluster increased from 64K to 1M ( during expansio