On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 07:36:21AM +0100, Paul Maunders wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to enable qcow2 compression when using virt-install to > create a new image as part of a new virtual machine? > > I've searched the manual and online, but can't find any info on this. IIRC if you create the target disk yourself (using 'qemu-img create') and point virt-install at the disk (--disk path=foo.qcow2,format=qcow2) then it should work. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org
