sparse files

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 16:44 -0500, Mike Reinehr wrote:
>
>> Try the `ulimit` command to see if you are working under any
>> resource limits:
>> http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/ulimit1.html
>
>
> Mine is set to unlimited.
>
>
Roger, could you explain why you are using "--sparse" instead of just
GZ-ing the image and scp-ing it to the new host?
If qemu is anything like VMWare, just copy the drive image and be done
with it.  Don't introduce new potential issues into the mix.

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