[virt-tools-list] Enabling qcow2 compression with virt-install

[Evaggelos Balaskas]

following your instructions ...

i bumped into

# virt-sparsify -v --compress winxp.img winxp.img.spars

qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O 'raw' -c '/VM/sparsify10f031.qcow2'
'winxp.img.spars'

qemu-img: Compression not supported for this file format
virt-sparsify: error: external command failed: qemu-img convert -f
qcow2 -O 'raw' -c '/VM/sparsify10f031.qcow2'
'winxp.img.spars'


# qemu-img info winxp.img
image: winxp.img
file format: raw
virtual size: 5.0G (5368709120 bytes)
disk size: 5.0G



any idea ?



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