Reclaim disk space from a sparse image file qcow2/ vmdk Rumi, July 23, 2020July 23, 2020 Sparse disk image formats such as qcow2 only consume the physical disk space which they need. For example, if a guest is given a qcow2 image with a size of 100GB but has only written to 10GB then only 10GB of physical disk space will be used. There is some… Continue Reading
Install Qemu Guest Agent on Proxmox Rumi, December 21, 2019 The qemu-guest-agent is a helper daemon, which is installed in the guest. It is used to exchange information between the host and guest, and to execute command in the guest. In Proxmox VE, the qemu-guest-agent is used for mainly two things: To properly shutdown the guest, instead of relying on… Continue Reading