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"Size" has two completely different meanings in the UI: size of virtual drive (when using Apple Virtualization) vs. actual size on host disk (QEMU) #5637
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Shouldn't the "Size" label in the UI be renamed to "Size on disk" (or something like that, to clarify that this means "the actual used size on disk")? |
I mean that’s typically what “size” means. |
Sure, but it's weird and confusing that the OS reports two wildly different "sizes" for Apple Virtualization VM's, and this would make it crystal clear which "Size" is meant here. This would give a user who "knows just enough to be dangerous" a hint that the VM isn't actually taking up all of the 64 Gibibytes / 68.72 Gigabytes on the disk (68.72 GB is what Finder shows as "Size"). The screenshot from the earlier comment, shows several different "sizes" for the 64 GiB drive: |
Yes you made that post and it’s fixed in d6ddf5a I don’t know what the issue is? |
I should have opened a new issue for this follow-up issue (clarifying the "Size" label). The problem is that macOS Finder shows "Size" as "68.72 GB", This will lead to unnecessary confusion that can be avoided by renaming the "Size" label in UTM as "Size on Disk".
Here's a screen shot that shows that Finder shows the "Size" as 68.72 GB because of the 64 GiB drive (not the actual size on disk) |
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(I did find #3362, but I think this is different enough to make a new issue, although I also agree that it would be great to have both the size of the virtual drive and the actual size on disk in the VM details)
Describe the issue
"Size" has two completely different meanings in the UTM UI (VM details):
Steps to reproduce:
(shows the size of the virtual drive (64 GB)
(shows the actual size the drive takes on the host filesystem, much less than 64 GB)
What happens: "Size" has two completely different meanings
What I expected: have the same meaning everywhere
From the point of view of a normal user who doesn't know what happens under the hood, it's very surprising that using Apple Virtualization suddenly changes the meaning of "Size" in the VM details UI
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