Package: qemu-utils Version: 1:3.1+dfsg-8~deb10u1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/qemu-img
Dear Maintainer, When converting a disk image to vhdx format with qemu-img, it seems to create a sparse file, with no documented option to disable this (the only documented options seem to be subformat and block_size). I tried: qemu-img convert src -O vhdx -o subformat=dynamic dst Unfortunately, the resulting files cannot be mounted or optimized on windows. Attempting either gives an error message similar to: "Images must be unencrypted, uncompressed and not sparse". Since more or less the whole purpose of vhdx files is to be compatible with windows, qemu-img should at least have an option to create "standard" vhdx files that can be mounted by windows. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, x32 Kernel: Linux 5.1.21-050121-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages qemu-utils depends on: ii libaio1 0.3.112-3 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6 ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-2 ii libgnutls30 3.6.7-4 ii libnettle6 3.4.1-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1 qemu-utils recommends no packages. Versions of packages qemu-utils suggests: ii debootstrap 1.0.114 ii qemu-block-extra 1:3.1+dfsg-8~deb10u1 -- debconf-show failed
