The virtual machine disk is no longer sparse after importing from Xen to RHEV

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Issue

  • A Xen virtual machine with a raw, sparse disk was converted using virt-v2v but, upon import into the RHEV environment, the disk became fully allocated. Is this expected?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0
  • Conversion Server: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.2 with virt-v2v-0.8.3

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