On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 20:57:32 -0600 Eric Blake wrote: > qemu-img rebase -u -b inner.img -F qcow2 -f qcow2 outer.qcow2 Cool. I never noticed rebase before. It is good to learn new things - Thanks. Now I wonder if it would still work if I used virt-sparsify to zero out the un-used block rather than merely converting the raw to qcow2? :-).