graphic: 0.857 device: 0.825 virtual: 0.727 architecture: 0.724 performance: 0.718 files: 0.672 PID: 0.627 arm: 0.548 register: 0.515 risc-v: 0.494 semantic: 0.486 permissions: 0.484 vnc: 0.483 boot: 0.467 debug: 0.463 peripherals: 0.453 user-level: 0.448 ppc: 0.447 mistranslation: 0.410 socket: 0.404 kernel: 0.398 TCG: 0.322 VMM: 0.279 network: 0.268 assembly: 0.203 i386: 0.201 hypervisor: 0.186 KVM: 0.164 x86: 0.158 On windows, preallocation=full qcow2 not creatable, qcow2 not resizable Description of problem: Not possible to create a fixed-virtual-disk qcow as one may do on linux. One sometimes may want to create a fixed size qcow2, as can be done with the fixed variants of VHDX, VMDK, VDI, The advantage of a fixed virtual-disk format, such as fixed-VHDX, fixed-VMDK, fixed-VDI is that it keeps the disk-meta-data as a header bundled along with that is essentially a raw image, allowing for seamless tooling and management of virtual-disks Workaround use a raw file as diskimage. (see workaround given below) To be very general, the implementation of this may need to factor in what underlying operations (fallocate, fallocate_punchhole, truncate, sparse) are supported by what filesystems (NTFS, ExFAT, ext4), choice of filesystem-driver (sometimes the driver may not have yet implemented an underlying operation), and operating systems (Linux/Win), and possible workarounds to achieve the same effect in the absence of underlying-operation. Steps to reproduce: 1. open command shell 2. run the qemu-img command. In my case, qcow2 file is attempted to be created on a drive with ExFAT filesystem. Additional information: