A quick check confirmed your report, thanks Andreas!
"preallocation" does exactly what expected and that takes the time you are
seeing:
Preallocation mode (allowed values: "off", "falloc", "full"). "falloc" mode
preallocates space for image by calling posix_fallocate(). "full" mode
preallocates space for image by writing zeros to underlying storage.
It already uses fallocate which is better than writing zeros and much
faster depending on the FS setup. But obviously bother are slower (on
creation) than lazy allocation later.
The change of this should be in virt-manager, not libvirt I'd assume.
I'll take a look.
P.S. already ahead of time I'd think that creating with pre-alloc -
while slower - is certainly much safer against later odd errors due to
disk space.
** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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