I marked https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1738840 as a duplicate of this bug, even though that bug was older, this bug has a slightly more active thread.
I'm still in need of either an APFS capable machine that I can reproduce on, or another mac dev willing to help a bit, though. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776920 Title: qemu-img convert on Mac OSX creates corrupt images Status in QEMU: New Bug description: An image created by qemu-img create, then modified by another program is converted to bad/corrupt image when using convert sub command on Mac OSX. The same convert works on Linux. The version of qemu-img is 2.12. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1776920/+subscriptions