How

I have a VM which had a 35GB HDD split into 2GB files. I decided to merge them by running:

prl_disk_tool convert --hdd ~/Parallels/FedoraDev.pvm/FedoraDev-0.hdd --merge​

Now I ended up with the following:

~/Parallels/FedoraDev.pvm/FedoraDev-0.hdd ❯ ls -la
total 49936720
drwxr-xr-x@ 9 reynierpm staff 288 Nov 30 08:56 .
drwx------@ 4 reynierpm staff 128 Nov 30 08:54 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 reynierpm staff 0 Nov 30 08:54 FedoraDev-0.hdd
-rw-r--r-- 1 reynierpm staff 25566380032 Nov 30 09:03 FedoraDev-0.hdd.copy.0.{5fbaabe3-6958-40ff-92a7-860e329aab41}.hds
-rw-rw-rw- 1 reynierpm staff 0 Nov 30 08:47 FedoraDev-0.hdd.copy.hdd
-rw-r--r-- 1 reynierpm staff 1192448 Nov 30 08:54 FedoraDev-0.hdd.copy.{5fbaabe3-6958-40ff-92a7-860e329aab41}.cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 reynierpm staff 13024 Nov 30 08:56 FedoraDev-0.hdd.drh
-rw-r--r-- 1 reynierpm staff 1942 Nov 30 08:56 DiskDescriptor.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 reynierpm staff 1942 Nov 30 08:54 DiskDescriptor.xml.Backup​

why these `copy` files were created? Is this a normal behavior?

PS: is there a way to highlight code so it doesn't look ugly as it is in my post?

 

I guess *.copy.* files made for the case if you would wish to abort the operation.
Once operation completed successfully, try to boot the VM to check thing.
The you can delete those *.copy.*
Additionally you can look at DiskDescriptor.xml and check that there is no reference to FedoraDev-0.hdd.copy.0.{5fbaabe3-6958-40ff-92a7-860e329aab41}.hds file

 

Well, I guess I cannot delete the `*.copy.*` because they are used "somehow" by the VM, see below:

~/Parallels/FedoraDev.pvm/CB911Dev-0.hdd ❯ cat DiskDescriptor.xml
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<Parallels_disk_image Version="1.0">
<Disk_Parameters>
<Disk_size>73400320</Disk_size>
<Cylinders>143360</Cylinders>
<PhysicalSectorSize>4096</PhysicalSectorSize>
<LogicSectorSize>512</LogicSectorSize>
<Heads>16</Heads>
<Sectors>32</Sectors>
<Padding>0</Padding>
<Encryption>
<Engine>{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}</Engine>
<Data></Data>
</Encryption>
<UID>{2006dd7d-4bf7-4e61-9450-4daef15e9e66}</UID>
<Name>FedoraDev-0 SSD</Name>
<Miscellaneous>
<CompatLevel>level2</CompatLevel>
<SuspendState>0</SuspendState>
<ChangeState>0</ChangeState>
<GuestToolsVersion>16.1.1-49141</GuestToolsVersion>
<Bootable>1</Bootable>
<DupBlocksCnt>0</DupBlocksCnt>
<CorruptBlocksCnt>0</CorruptBlocksCnt>
<UnrefBlocksCnt>0</UnrefBlocksCnt>
<OutOfDiskBlocksCnt>0</OutOfDiskBlocksCnt>
<BatOverlapBlocksCnt>0</BatOverlapBlocksCnt>
<BlocksCnt>0</BlocksCnt>
<TruncatedBlocksCnt>0</TruncatedBlocksCnt>
<ReferencedBlocksCnt>0</ReferencedBlocksCnt>
<ShutdownState>0</ShutdownState>
</Miscellaneous>
</Disk_Parameters>
<StorageData>
<Storage>
<Start>0</Start>
<End>73400320</End>
<Blocksize>2048</Blocksize>
<Image>
<GUID>{5fbaabe3-6958-40ff-92a7-860e329aab41}</GUID>
<Type>Compressed</Type>
<File>FedoraDev-0.hdd.copy.0.{5fbaabe3-6958-40ff-92a7-860e329aab41}.hds</File>
</Image>
</Storage>
</StorageData>
<Snapshots>
<Shot>
<GUID>{5fbaabe3-6958-40ff-92a7-860e329aab41}</GUID>
<ParentGUID>{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}</ParentGUID>
</Shot>
</Snapshots>
</Parallels_disk_image>
​

Not sure how or why but they are being used, weird to me tho.