The compression filter can be used e.g. with -drive
driver=compress,file.driver=qcow2,file.file.filename=foo.qcow2.
However, it shouldn’t be used lightly, as it will only do the right
thing in very specific circumstances, namely every cluster that’s
written to must not be allocated already. So wri
Ok, sorry, seems like I mis-understood that new compression_type
feature. If the requested feature will likely never be implemented,
should we move this to WontFix instead?
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On 11/19/20 3:39 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> As far as I know, QEMU v5.1 now has support for compression filters,
> e.g. by creating a qcow2 image with:
>
> qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o compression_type=zlib image.qcow2 1G
>
> ... so I think we can finally mark this ticket here as done.
That says w
As far as I know, QEMU v5.1 now has support for compression filters,
e.g. by creating a qcow2 image with:
qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o compression_type=zlib image.qcow2 1G
... so I think we can finally mark this ticket here as done.
** Changed in: qemu
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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+1 vote for this feature.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498523
Title:
Add on-line write compression support to qcow2
Status in QEMU:
Confirmed
Bug description:
This is a wishl
