On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 09:54:53PM +0300, Evaggelos Balaskas wrote: > 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 ? Raw doesn't support compression, so it's a bug in virt-sparsify: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=852194 The right thing to do isn't completely clear. We could either improve the error message, or perhaps feed the output through 'xz' (although that would result in a disk image which isn't directly bootable). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v
