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, was notorious for its console hang. He modified the grub configuration, forcing the output to the serial port so his virtual environment could actually talk to it. The Shrink : Finally, he ran the magic command: qemu-img convert -c -O qcow2 source.qcow2 repacked.qcow2 was the secret sauce—compression. The Moment of Truth To "repack" the ( csr1000v-universalk9
