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Posted to users@cloudstack.apache.org by Chip Childers <ch...@sungard.com> on 2013/07/01 18:04:21 UTC

Re: Template incorrectly reports HUGE size

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 04:03:26PM -0400, john@millican.us wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a shiny new cloudstack install and have just uploaded an
> Ubuntu template to it.  The template was created as a qcow2 KVM VM
> on a vanilla Ubuntu 13.04 (Linux alpha 3.8.0-23-generic #34-Ubuntu
> SMP Wed May 29 20:22:58 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux).  I
> built it wil an 8GB disk size but in cloudstack templates view it is
> showing as 755.64TB, just a bit bigger than the original 8GB. I did
> not gzip the VM when I uploaded it. Any thoughts on what to look at
> to see why this is happening?
> CloudStack environment is all Ubuntu 12.04.2(Linux charon
> 3.5.0-23-generic #35~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 25 17:13:26 UTC
> 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) with NFS for storage.
> Thanks,
> JohnM
>

Have you opened a bug about this (or looked to see if we happen to
already have one)?