other: 0.877 graphic: 0.825 device: 0.814 semantic: 0.800 performance: 0.766 files: 0.705 socket: 0.692 vnc: 0.691 permissions: 0.680 boot: 0.662 network: 0.656 PID: 0.615 debug: 0.474 KVM: 0.417 qemu-img convert -c compression can't decompress Used -c compression option of qemu-img convert to compress qcow2, then libvirt mount for compressed image don't work as well as decompression also not working, tried glib-deflate to decompress Used openssl zlib -d < compressedfile but that also not working When tried zlib-flate -uncompress < cirros-0.3.4-x86_64-disk.img, getting below error data: incorrect header check Which version of QEMU (or rather qemu-img) are you using? qemu-img version 2.1.2, Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Fabrice Bellard When reporting bugs, please always use the latest version of QEMU, old versions like 2.1 are not supported anymore. I just also noticed that Stefan Hajnoczi replied to the bug mail on the qemu-devel mailing list (see https://