From 4a64a355092d3e7b83e56be044cf954561dec017 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Bauer
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:16:31 +0100
Subject: added note on how to compress with virt-sparsify

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 README.md | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'README.md')

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 60d5011..7c98e48 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -26,10 +26,12 @@ Debug:
 
 Variables set in base.json can be overriden using packer's '-var' options, e.g.:
 	packer build -var-file=base.json -var='headless=true' <template>
-
 (Make sure you first include base.json before overriding a variable!)
 
 Packer connects to the VM per SSH to provision them after the initial iso installation.
 A default password is defined in base.json and the corresponding SHA-512 hashes are set
 in the kickstart/preseed files. If you change the 'ssh_password' make sure to change the
 hashes in the ks/ps files (generate with 'mkpasswd -m sha-512')!
+
+While the qemu builder produces a qcow2 image, it can be further compressed using:
+	virt-sparsify --compress <qcow2_file> <output_qcow2_file>
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