drive_mirror on a resized image creates file with wrong size Repro steps: qemu-img create -f qcow2 base 32M qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o backing_file=base disk qemu-img resize /home/vishvananda/disk 64M qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=disk,id=vda -vnc :1 -monitor stdio QEMU 1.3.0 monitor - type 'help' for more information (qemu) drive_mirror vda test Formatting 'test', fmt=qcow2 size=33554432 backing_file='base' backing_fmt='qcow2' encryption=off cluster_size=65536 lazy_refcounts=off the file is 32M instead of 64M: qemu-img info test image: test file format: qcow2 virtual size: 32M (33554432 bytes) disk size: 196K cluster_size: 65536 backing file: base backing file format: qcow2 Workaround is to precreate the new file of the proper size and pass -n qemu-img create -f qcow2 base 32M qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o backing_file=base disk qemu-img resize /home/vishvananda/disk 64M qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o backing_file=base test 64M qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=disk,id=vda -vnc :1 -monitor stdio QEMU 1.3.0 monitor - type 'help' for more information (qemu) drive_mirror vda test -n reformatted patch and submitted upstream: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-01/msg04584.html Patch has been included here: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=8689907266b649b757c220 ... so I think it should be OK to close this bug ticket now.