[et-mgmt-tools] Question about Guest disk image size limit

Hugh Brock hbrock at redhat.com
Fri Mar 16 18:48:00 UTC 2007


Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 06:09:15PM +0900, Atsushi SAKAI wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Guest OS disk Image size is limited to 16GB 
>> in case we are using virt-manager.
>> Is this any reason to limit this value?
> 
> No, it seems bogus. It should be possible to create files as large as the
> underlying filesystem supports (typically 2TB)
> 
>> This information is written in following file.
>> virt-manager-0.2.6 virt-manager.glade
>> virt-manager-0.3.1 vmm-create.glade
> 
I have fixed this in the tree. The upper limit on file size is now ~4 
TB, which "should be enough for anybody".

--Hugh

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