+=head2 QCOW2 AND NON-SPARSE RAW FORMATS
+
+If the input disk is in qcow2 format, then you may prefer that the
+output is in qcow2 format as well. Alternately, virt-resize can
+convert the format on the fly. The output format is simply determined
+by the format of the empty output container that you provide. Thus to
+create qcow2 output, use:
+
+ qemu-img create [-c] -f qcow2 outdisk [size]
+
+instead of the truncate command (use C<-c> for a compressed disk).
+
+Similarly, to get non-sparse raw output use:
+
+ fallocate -l size outdisk
+
+(on older systems that don't have the L<fallocate(1)> command use
+C<dd if=/dev/zero of=outdisk bs=1M count=..>)
+