On 07/31/2013 03:23 PM, mattias wrote: > but fdisk -l w.qcow2 shows totaly wrong! You can't use fdisk on a qcow2 file (as it is not just a true image of a raw disk). I highly recommend this guide [1] in order to understand the different file formats used for disk images. Regarding your first question: yes. You can convert from a raw image to qcow2. HTH, Jorge [1]: http://lnx.cx/docs/vdg/output/Virtual-Disk-Operations.html