I have looked all over the internet but I can not even find a reference to this issue. I have installed the following on Linux Mint 17.1 QEMU emulator version 2.0.0 (Debian 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.19), Fabrice Bellard On that, I have created a Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS guest and created a storage volume of 12.88GB. The format that I used was raw. The host uses a physical mirrored drive and I did NOT use LVM (ext4 was the format type) When installing the guest, I selected to "use entire disk" and again I did NOT use LVM (ext4 was the format type) After installation, the guest reports I am using 23.8% of 4.84GB. Why is the disk size 4.84GB instead of 12.88GB? The size of the guest virtual disk is being reduced by almost a third? -- 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