The following two fixes by Jürgen Keil have been in qemu for a year now. They are still missing in ioemu. [Qemu-devel] PATCH: qcow2 image corruption http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-03/msg00773.html [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow2: release refcount table clusters of the old table, after growing the refcount table http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-04/msg00043.html Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf