If you can double the number of virtual machines by cutting them into halves: the price of the storage cannot going down that fast and big enough as that doubling the storage would be cheaper.
If the goal is to massively increase the number of VMs that can be run on the available storage an alternative approach is to use de-duplication, either automatic on the host filesystem or block level, or manually with qemu qcow2 base images. For booting over a metered network connection, it's not the size of the remote image that matters but how much of it is transferred. As far as I know, python uses the time of last modification to decide whether to re-compile, i.e. the contents of the py files are normally not requested. Therefore, to reduce the network traffic, one needs to minimise how much traffic is wasted on py data due to block sharing and readahead, e.g. with mksquashfs -sort. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org