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On 01/19/2015 11:41 PM, Michael Still wrote:
> Mostly.
>
> qcow2 can do a copy on write layer, although it can be disabled IIRC.
> So if COW is turned on, you get only the delta in the instance
> directory when using qcow2.

It seems you have to set images_type=raw (or use_cow_images=false) to 
disable copy on write, image will be handled by Raw class from 
imagebackend.py.

> Cheers,
> Michael
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Dmitry Guryanov
> <dguryanov at parallels.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Do I understand correctly, that both Qcow2 and Raw classes in
>> libvirt/imagebackend.py can work with images in qcow2 format, but Raw copies
>> the whole base image from cache to the instance's dir and Qcow2 only creates
>> a delta (and use base image from cache)?
>>
>> --
>> Dmitry Guryanov
>>
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