virt-sparsify

linux

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

Examples (3)

Create a sparsified compressed image without snapshots from an unsparsified one

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

Sparsify an image in-place

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

Convert from one image format to another

virt-sparsify path/to/image --convert qcow2|raw|vdi|... path/to/new_image