[Libguestfs] can not get the virt-sparsify code in libguestfs ?

[Li, Feng F]

The log output from command " ./virt-sparsify --inplace -v -x /home/intel/imgStore/POS_DATA.qcow2"


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> 
Sent: 2022年9月23日 20:07
To: Li, Feng F <feng.f.li at intel.com>
Cc: libguestfs at redhat.com
Subject: Re: can not get the virt-sparsify code in libguestfs ?

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 11:37:01AM +0000, Li, Feng F wrote:
> We download the guestfs-tools from below git and compile a local version .
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> But when we did the test , please see below:
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>  1. In the Windows the Drive D:\ , the real disk usage is about 19.9-17.7 =
>     2.2G.
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>  2. Shutdown VM , then we use virt-sparsify on the qcow2 image, but the size is
>     still same as before 6.54G.
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> It is expected the qcow2 is resized to 2.2G , right ?
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> Any reason for why the disk size is not returned to host ?

Difficult to say.  What is the complete output from virt-sparsify -v -x .... ?

Rich.

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> Thanks a lot !
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> lifeng
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
> Sent: 2022年9月22日 21:00
> To: Li, Feng F <feng.f.li at intel.com>
> Cc: libguestfs at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: can not get the virt-sparsify code in libguestfs ?
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> On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 11:48:17AM +0000, Li, Feng F wrote:
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> > 2) https://libguestfs.org/virt-sparsify.1.html
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> > we downloaded the libguestfs (1.48-stable) library ,but after the
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> > configure and make, we did not found the virt-sparsify source code 
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> > binary file, would you please help see where to get the 
> > virt-sparsify
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> > source code for debug ?
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> virt-sparsify and some other tools were recently moved into a new
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> https://github.com/rwmjones/guestfs-tools
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> Most Linux distros already ship these tools.  You shouldn't really 
> need to compile it all from source yourself (although of course it is 
> possible and you are welcome to try).
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> Rich.
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