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Date:      Sat, 8 Feb 2014 06:42:54 -0500
From:      Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
To:        Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD virtualization <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Report of my virtual network lab migrated from virtualbox to bhyve
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On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>wrot=
e:

> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:20 AM, Olivier Cochard-Labb=E9 <olivier@cochard.=
me
> >wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> wrote=
:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >  If you create a sparse file for the bhyve raw disk (e.g. with trunca=
te
> > > -s), du will show the actual blocks used rather than the total size.
> >
> >
> > But can I truncate an already existing image disk (downloaded nanobsd
> image
> > as example) ?
>
>
> There is this:  https://github.com/masover/sparsify
>
> I think this or something like it used to be in ports too.
>

bhyve (as far I know) disks must be one solid file (md backed) or a /dev
block device... therefore it is unlikely the above would work

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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org



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