Virtual disks and storage pools — raw, qcow2, qemu-img

55 min Python 3.12 (Debian, git, pip) Versions QEMU 8 à 10, libvirt 9 à 11

Objective

Know which disk format to give a VM, read and transform an image with qemu-img, avoid the overprovisioned storage trap, and organize the disks of a hypervisor into libvirt pools.

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