Impossible to create an uncompressed QCOW2 disk Description of problem: An QCOW2 image is created compressed unconditionally. There is no way to disable compression, albeit the QCOW format specification allows this. ``` $ qemu-img --version qemu-img version 6.2.0 (Debian 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.12) Copyright (c) 2003-2021 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 test.qcow2 1G Formatting 'test.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 cluster_size=65536 extended_l2=off compression_type=zlib size=1073741824 lazy_refcounts=off refcount_bits=16 $ ``` Same is applicable for 8-x qemu-img version (I built it for testing purposes) ``` $ ./build/qemu-img create -f qcow2 disk.qcow2 1G Formatting 'disk.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 cluster_size=65536 extended_l2=off compression_type=zlib size=1073741824 lazy_refcounts=off refcount_bits=16 $ ./build/qemu-img --version qemu-img version 8.0.90 (v8.1.0-rc0-21-gd1181d2937) Copyright (c) 2003-2023 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers $ ``` Steps to reproduce: Create a QCOW2 disk with `qemu-img` of never versions.