QA » openQA Project

Our disk images are not self contained:

coolo@openqa:/var/lib/openqa/factory/hdd> qemu-img info sle-12-SP3-x86_64-0285-Server-DVD@64bit-with-ltp.qcow2
image: sle-12-SP3-x86_64-0285-Server-DVD@64bit-with-ltp.qcow2
file format: qcow2
virtual size: 50G (53687091200 bytes)
disk size: 4.0G
cluster_size: 65536
backing file: /var/lib/openqa/pool/1/SLES-12-SP3-x86_64-0285-minimal_with_sdk0126_installed.qcow2
Snapshot list:
ID TAG VM SIZE DATE VM CLOCK
1 lastgood 2.2G 2017-03-19 09:35:05 00:06:34.824
Format specific information:
compat: 1.1
lazy refcounts: false
refcount bits:

And I wonder if we shouldn't strip the snapshots. To store and transfer unused 2.2GB sounds insane.

This is rather urgent to fix - it wasn't such a big problem when all images referenced /var/lib/openqa/share/factory - but without
global NFS this makes HDDs impossilble to port.