(i think) you could use virt-sparsify instead of qemu-img to make final image ev... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		tryauuum on Sept 2, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Create FreeBSD Current OpenStack Image on OVH Publ... (i think) you could use virt-sparsify instead of qemu-img to make final image even smaller

kuzko_topia on Sept 2, 2019 [–]

You can, we do this to reduce instance creation time. Though doing this by hand is tedious, that's nothing a good CI pipeline couldn't help with

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact