Information
ID: 790
PHID: PHID-TASK-mn7ylgzogy7oyh7toprg
Author: Onion_Knight
Status at Migration Time: resolved
Priority at Migration Time: Normal
Description
The size of raw images produced by the Whonix build process can be significantly reduced by zeroing their remaining unused space. As a result, the size of VirtualBox (.ova) and KVM (.qcow2) distributed images is greatly reduced too, shortening the download process and making their distribution easier. As a side effect, importation of ova images in VirtualBox is also much faster.
The package zerofree (available in the free Debian repositories) can be conveniently used to perform this task against the raw images (as block devices). Zeroing should occur before the conversion to .qcow2 or .vdi formats.
https://forums.whonix.org/t/reducing-size-of-ova-images
Comments
Onion_Knight
2018-04-30 13:50:49 UTC
Onion_Knight
2018-04-30 13:51:06 UTC