I can't reproduce this. qemu-img convert works just fine here. qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O qcow2 -c -o compat=0.10 x.img y.img
(from a random winXP guest image). ** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1452062 Title: qemu-img will fail to convert images in 2.3.0 Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: Hello guys, There seems to be a bug in qemu-img with 2.3.0 that wasn't there in 2.2.1 .... qemu convert will always fail converting. See the output below: Started by upstream project "Create windows image" build number 73 originally caused by: Started by user anonymous Building remotely on builder (builder lab) in workspace /var/lib/jenkins/remote/workspace/Prepare windows Image [Prepare WS2008R2 Image] $ /bin/sh -xe /tmp/hudson4138890034689910617.sh + sudo bash -x /var/images/prepare_windows.sh WS2008R2 + set +x Preparing: windows Virtio CD: virtio-win-0.1.96.iso Sparsifying... qemu-img: error while compressing sector 11131648: Input/output error virt-sparsify: error: external command failed: qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O 'qcow2' -c -o 'compat=0.10' '/tmp/sparsifyb459a0.qcow2' '/var/images/generated/WS2008R2.qcow2' virt-sparsify: If reporting bugs, run virt-sparsify with debugging enabled (-v) and include the complete output. Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure Warning: you have no plugins providing access control for builds, so falling back to legacy behavior of permitting any downstream builds to be triggered Finished: FAILURE Thanks, Dave To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1452062/+subscriptions