[fedora-virt] Cloning very slow?

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Thu Apr 29 16:22:12 UTC 2010


On 04/29/2010 07:29 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:
> Yesterday I cloned one of my VMs and, somewhat implausibly, it took 
> virt-clone something like 8-9 hours to clone the 8Gb disk image... 
> Copying it from the command line took a mere 6.5 minutes.
> 
> I assume this is a bug, and it's not expected to take this long ;-)
> 
> This was using virt-clone from python-virtinst-0.500.2-1.fc12.noarch in 
> the virt-preview repository.
> 

This is a libvirt bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582356

Should be fixed in the rawhide version.

- Cole


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