From 5fc4b9a6dd3da82d6ba610f12303c8da75fa2adc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pragmatic Software Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 12:16:09 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] doc/VirtualMachine.md: remove `io=native` from disk to speed up snapshots --- doc/VirtualMachine.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/VirtualMachine.md b/doc/VirtualMachine.md index e680977f..a09136db 100644 --- a/doc/VirtualMachine.md +++ b/doc/VirtualMachine.md @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ To create a new virtual machine we'll use the `virt-install` command. Execute the following command: - host$ virt-install --name=pbot-vm --disk=size=12,driver.io=native,path=vm.qcow2 --cpu=host --os-variant=fedora34 --graphics=spice --video=virtio --location=Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-35-1.2.iso + host$ virt-install --name=pbot-vm --disk=size=12,path=vm.qcow2 --cpu=host --os-variant=fedora34 --graphics=spice --video=virtio --location=Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-35-1.2.iso Note that `disk=size=12` will create a 12 GB sparse file. Sparse means the file won't actually take up 12 GB. It will start at 0 bytes and grow as needed. You can