[fedora-virt] Specify disk-image format on Virt-Manager

Jorge Fábregas jorge.fabregas at gmail.com
Fri Sep 27 14:30:31 UTC 2013


On 09/27/2013 10:12 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> What disk image format do you want? If qcow2, there's an option to turn it on
> globally in Preferences, 

Arrrrrgh. I missed that one, sorry. Yes, it is qcow2 that I'm using so
this option solves the problem for me.

> and we will likely make it the default soon enough.

That would be perfect!

> Anything else (besides raw) we wouldn't want to advertise in the 'create'
> wizard since its supportability is suspect. And with a few extra clicks you
> can go Browse->Create Volume and have all the bells and whistles.
> 
> So for those reasons I don't want to promote another piece of UI in the wizard
> that could potentially cause confusion for inexperienced users.

Thanks Cole for the explanation.  That makes total sense.

All the best,
Jorge


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