bizdelnick, 1 year ago BTW it is possible to compress existing qcow2 images. Before that I recommend to run fstrim -a inside the VM. Then shut it down and execute qemu-img convert -cp old_image.qcow2 new_image.qcow2 && mv -f new_image.qcow2 old_image.qcow2.
BTW it is possible to compress existing qcow2 images. Before that I recommend to run fstrim -a inside the VM. Then shut it down and execute qemu-img convert -cp old_image.qcow2 new_image.qcow2 && mv -f new_image.qcow2 old_image.qcow2.
fstrim -a
qemu-img convert -cp old_image.qcow2 new_image.qcow2 && mv -f new_image.qcow2 old_image.qcow2