Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <p...@kamp.de> --- qemu-img.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/qemu-img.c b/qemu-img.c index 809b4f1..5aa53ab 100644 --- a/qemu-img.c +++ b/qemu-img.c @@ -1513,9 +1513,13 @@ static int img_convert(int argc, char **argv) If the output is to a host device, we also write out sectors that are entirely 0, since whatever data was already there is garbage, not 0s. */ - if (!has_zero_init || out_baseimg || - is_allocated_sectors_min(buf1, n, &n1, min_sparse)) { - ret = bdrv_write(out_bs, sector_num, buf1, n1); + int allocated = is_allocated_sectors_min(buf1, n, &n1, min_sparse); + if (!has_zero_init || out_baseimg || allocated) { + if (allocated || out_baseimg) { + ret = bdrv_write(out_bs, sector_num, buf1, n1); + } else { + ret = bdrv_write_zeroes(out_bs, sector_num, n1); + } if (ret < 0) { error_report("error while writing sector %" PRId64 ": %s", sector_num, strerror(-ret)); -- 1.7.9.5