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Answer: Converting an EC2 AMI to vmdk image #dev #solution #computers

Converting an EC2 AMI to vmdk image

I’ve come quite close to getting Amazon Linux to boot inside VirtualBox, thanks to this answer and these websites. A quick overview of the steps I’ve taken:

Launch EC2 instance with Amazon Linux 2011.09 64-bit AMI

dd the contents of the EBS volume over ssh to a local image file.

Mount the image file as a loopback device and then to a local mount point.

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Resolved: free up not used space on a qcow2-image-file on kvm/qemu #answer #programming #it

free up not used space on a qcow2-image-file on kvm/qemu

we are using kvm/qemu with qcow2-images for our virtual machines.

qcow2 has this nice feature where the image file only allocates the actually needed space by the virtual-machine. but how do i shrink back the image file, if the virtual machine’s allocated space gets smaller?

example:

1.) i create a new image with qcow2 format, size 100GB

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