QCOW2

[Alfredo De Luca]

Hi Wynona.  Thanks for that. What I want to do actually is join 2 qcow2
onto one then boot that disk in an Openstack.
So I was guessing if there is a qemu flag to do so.

I have
PRIMARY-DISK.qcow2
AUXILIARY-DISK.qcow2

cheers


On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 11:52 PM Wynona Stacy Lockwood <stacy at guppylog.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 2:51 AM Alfredo De Luca <alfredo.deluca at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all.
>> Just a quick one. I need to merge 2 qcow2 in one. Any idea?
>>
>>
>> --
>> *Alfredo*
>>
>
> To do this cleanly, enlarge one of the qcow2 files to an appropriate size,
> then mount both in a VM, and rsync the contents to the enlarged disk.
> Assuming there are no collisions, you should be fine.
>
> Resize the image with qemu-img resize image.qcow2 +SIZE. where SIZE is the
> size (e.g. 10G for 10 gibibytes). Do that from the KVM server when the
> qcow2 is either unmounted, preferably with the VM in question off.
>
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