My best guess is that you forgot the -f parameter to qemu-img.
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Hmm. Maybe? This would be a virt-manager but though, as I stopped bothering with CLI and just use that again
I did not use virt-manager for a while, but probably it allocates the whole virtual disk by default (i don't remember for sure). Try to create it manually and ensure that checkbox "allocate the whole volume" is disabled. You can also do this with qemu-img create command (see man qemu-img for options).
BTW it is possible to compress existing qcow2 images. Before that I recommend to run fstrim -a inside the VM. Then shut it down and execute qemu-img convert -cp old_image.qcow2 new_image.qcow2 && mv -f new_image.qcow2 old_image.qcow2.
Thanks!
I think qcow2 images are always a fixed size (but I could be wrong on that) however I saw some threads explaining how you could relatively easy modify the size of the qcow2 image :)