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virt-sparsify

Make virtual machine drive images thin-provisioned. tldr-pages

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Make virtual machine drive images thin-provisioned. Note: Use only for offline machines to avoid data corruption.

Create a sparsified compressed image without snapshots from an unsparsified one

virt-sparsify --compress path/to/image.qcow2 path/to/new_image.qcow2Identify

Sparsify an image in-place

virt-sparsify --in-place path/to/image.imgIdentify

Convert from one image format to another

virt-sparsify path/to/image --convert qcow2 path/to/new_imageIdentify