qcow2 disk size exceeds the virtual size

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Issue

qcow2 image disk size exceeds the virtual size.

The disk was created with :

# qemu-img create -f qcow2 test.qcow2 800G

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3

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