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diff --git a/results/classifier/105/instruction/813 b/results/classifier/105/instruction/813 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b7f62a353 --- /dev/null +++ b/results/classifier/105/instruction/813 @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +instruction: 0.858 +graphic: 0.857 +device: 0.825 +semantic: 0.486 +vnc: 0.483 +boot: 0.467 +other: 0.427 +mistranslation: 0.410 +socket: 0.404 +network: 0.268 +assembly: 0.203 +KVM: 0.164 + +On windows, preallocation=full qcow2 not creatable, qcow2 not resizable +Description of problem: +Not possible to create a fixed-virtual-disk qcow as one may do on linux. +One sometimes may want to create a fixed size qcow2, as can be done with the fixed variants of VHDX, VMDK, VDI, + +The advantage of a fixed virtual-disk format, such as fixed-VHDX, fixed-VMDK, fixed-VDI is that it keeps the disk-meta-data as a header bundled along with that is essentially a raw image, allowing for seamless tooling and management of virtual-disks + +Workaround use a raw file as diskimage. (see workaround given below) + +To be very general, the implementation of this may need to factor in what underlying operations (fallocate, fallocate_punchhole, truncate, sparse) are supported by what filesystems (NTFS, ExFAT, ext4), choice of filesystem-driver (sometimes the driver may not have yet implemented an underlying operation), and operating systems (Linux/Win), and possible workarounds to achieve the same effect in the absence of underlying-operation. +Steps to reproduce: +1. open command shell +2. run the qemu-img command. In my case, qcow2 file is attempted to be created on a drive with ExFAT filesystem. +Additional information: + |