[Discuss] ZFS on Raspberry Pi?

[markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)]

I'm going to let you in on a trick I do all the time for quick and dirty
VMs, ready....

touch vmimage.raw
truncate -s 32G

ls -l vmimage.raw
-rw-rw-r-- 1 markw markw 34359738368 Jul 29 13:29 vmimage.raw

Then use that as storage for the VM. It is a thin provisioned raw image.

Or, if you have ZFS create a ZVOL.


> On 7/29/22 09:08, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
>> Today, the infrastructure, KVM and virt-manager make it trivial.
>
> I got as for as playing with virt-manager GUI stuff, but it wasn't yet
> easy. I'll play with it again some time.
>
> Heck. Maybe I'll play with it today, I need to understand some Rails
> stuff and my regular Rails install doesn't do what the documentation
> says it should do. Ah, but I won't need any in-bound networking, so it
> will be pretty easy. But will Debian 11 Virtual Machine Manager still
> put me in QCOW land?
>
> -kb
>
>