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On Fri, 7 Feb 2014, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote:

> First remark comparing the disk format: With an original nanobsd disk image
> of 488MB.
> - Virtualbox format disk size: 133M
> - bhyve raw disk size: 488M

Can bhyve use sparse files for disk images?

Thank you for posting the comparison!