<html><body><div style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><div>Hi, </div><div><br></div><div>I had a 'domain' called APP03. I was performing auto snapshots each night using <em>/usr/bin/virsh snapshot-create APP03</em>. </div><div><span data-mce-bogus="true" style=""><span data-mce-bogus="true">I then wanted the domain to be called APP01 for clarity's sake, so I did virsh dumpxml APP03 > APP03.xml, edited the name to APP01 and changed the ID. I then did virsh define APP03.xml to get APP01. </span></span></div><div><span data-mce-bogus="true" style=""><span data-mce-bogus="true"><br></span></span></div><div><span data-mce-bogus="true" style=""><span data-mce-bogus="true">I have now realised that the qcow2 images are huge (1.1TB image but 80G inside the virtual machine), I am assuming this is the snapshots tagged onto the virtual hard disk? </span></span></div><div><span data-mce-bogus="true" style=""><span data-mce-bogus="true"><br></span></span></div><div><span data-mce-bogus="true" style=""><span data-mce-bogus="true">How do I reduce the size of those back to something realistic? I've removed old snapshots from APP03 using virsh snapshot-delete APP03 '<snapshotidnumber></span></span></div><div><span data-mce-bogus="true" style=""><span data-mce-bogus="true"><br></span></span></div><div><span data-mce-bogus="true" style=""><span data-mce-bogus="true">Hope this makes sense</span></span></div><div><span data-mce-bogus="true" style=""><span data-mce-bogus="true"><br></span></span></div><div><span data-mce-bogus="true" style=""><span data-mce-bogus="true"><br></span></span></div></div></body></html>