On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 10:57:43AM -0500, libvirt_users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Thanks for all the information, I think my last remaining question is > why the image created with virt-install shows the full apparent size > and the image from virt-sparsify does not? (The image testimage1.qcow2 > created with default options). I don't really know what you mean by "full apparent size". If you are talking about the output of "ls -l", then don't -- that number is unrelated to the virtual size or the space consumed on disk. Always use "qemu-img info". Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users