Alberto Treviño wrote: >I wrote a simple utility in .Net 2.0 that creates a file in Windows with all >0's until the drive is full, then deletes it. Like this? SDelete: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897443.aspx >This allows qemu-img to recreate the image and reclaim any sectors that are >all 0's. [...] > > qemu-img convert -O qcow2 win_xp.img win_xp.img.new Thanks, and to Matthew Palmer; this is a big help in reclaiming qcow2 file size. -- Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia "Nobody ever rioted for austerity" - George Monbiot -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html