Because nobody has implemented it so far. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1888467
Title: qemu-img http convert bug Status in QEMU: New Bug description: Hello, Why the file sizes of http conversion and local conversion are inconsistent? Use the http method of qemu-img for conversion. The size of some formats after conversion is different from the local method of qemu-img. Such as vhd, vdi. qcow2 and vmdk are normal。 My image size is 40 G, raw format. The source is the same file, but the access method is different http method of qemu-img： qemu-img convert -f raw -O vdi http://xxx xxx.vdi（19G，after conversion） local method of qemu-img： qemu-img convert -f raw -O vdi xxx.raw xxx.vdi（3G，after conversion） thank you To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1888467/+subscriptions
