ovirt-engine intentionally blocks sparsifying QCOW images since 4.4.4
because it confused users that didn't see the right amount of free space
afterwards, see the following bug for more details:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1792905

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 3:03 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

> Unfortunately yes, even VM's/disks on the NFS data domain are giving the
> same error.
>
> Just to be sure, i just created a completely new NFS data share on Truenas
> imported the data domain to ovirt and created a new test vm with 2 thin
> provisioned disks on it, cannot sparsify neither:
>
> "Error while executing action: Cannot sparsify Virtual Disk. Sparsifying
> is not supported for QCOW2 disk testvm3_Disk1."
>
> I checked the NFS share on Truenas to make sure i have a sparse qcow2 file
> and it is:
>
> -rw-rw---- 1 vdsm ovirt-kvm  24G Jan 12 12:57
> a0f82c8b-d2aa-442b-b28b-b25ca684dd7b
> -rw-rw---- 1 vdsm ovirt-kvm 1.0M Jan 12 12:44
> a0f82c8b-d2aa-442b-b28b-b25ca684dd7b.lease
> -rw-r--r-- 1 vdsm ovirt-kvm  307 Jan 12 12:44
> a0f82c8b-d2aa-442b-b28b-b25ca684dd7b.meta
> root@truenas[.../29dcdef7-8d1d-48bc-b9cf-3850102ec251]# file
> a0f82c8b-d2aa-442b-b28b-b25ca684dd7b
> a0f82c8b-d2aa-442b-b28b-b25ca684dd7b: QEMU QCOW2 Image (v3), 26843545600
> bytes
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