Re: [libvirt-users] unable to create preallocated image with gluster protocol

On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 3:44:46 PM, SATHEESARAN wrote: PFA, As discussed, I'm able to create this without any issue (built qemu from source 'master'), If you are compiling it from source, make sure you configure it with option '--enable-glusterfs', which enables gluster related full/metedata preallocation mode related API's. # qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o preallocation=metadata gluster://10.70.1.86/sample/test_metadata.qcow2 512M 2>&1 | tee test_metadata.log # qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o preallocation=full gluster://10.70.1.86/sample/test_full.qcow2 512M 2>&1 | tee test_full.log #/mnt $ ls -lh total 8.6G -rw------- 1 root root 513M Mar 9 08:19 test_full.qcow2 -rw------- 1 root root 513M Mar 9 08:19 test_metadata.qcow2 #/mnt $ du -sh ./* 513M ./test_full.qcow2 268K ./test_metadata.qcow2 In case if you are using pre-built binaries make sure they are built with above option -- Prasanna