KVM Virtualization Cookbook

How it works...

We start this recipe with the file_virtimages storage pool we created in the previous recipe. We list all storage pools in step 1 to confirm that. In step 2, we see that our storage pool contains a single volume. No surprises here as we created that in the last recipe in this chapter.

In step 3, we create a new volume, by specifying its name, size, and the storage pool we want it to be a part of. Since this is a directory-backed storage pool, we can see the volume as a raw image file in step 4.

In steps 5 and 6, we collect more information about the new volume. We can see that it is a raw, therefore by default a sparse image. Sparse images don't allocate all of the disk space and grow as more data is being written to it.