[Fedora-xen] Kickstart slowness with virt-install

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> Yes, upfront time will be longer due to the need to pre-allocate the
> disk, this should be more than offset by the faster install time. So
> I'd use --nonsparse as a general rule.

So why isn't that the default for virt-install? The other risk is the
admin creating a truckload of sparse images, and the guests ending
with really odd problems months later when it turns out there isn't
enough diskspace, and no one can figure out this has happened after
running so well before...

Paul