Another one might be to import the OVA as a template and then provision a
VM from that template with allocation-policy=clone and specifying that the
VM disk(s) should be preallocated

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 7:56 AM Strahil Nikolov via Users <users@ovirt.org>
wrote:

> One workaround that comes to my mind is to power up the VM, write a large
> file and delete it and run fstrim -av.
> Another approach is to create an additional LV inside the guest, use dd to
> fill it in and then blkdiscard and delete the LV .
>
> It will force the fisk to be fully allocated
>
> Best Regards,
> Strahil Nikolov
>
> Thanks Arik,
>
> Is there a fix that can be applied to current versions as 4.5 release and
> subsequent testing/approval is some way off/
>
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