Compression of qcow2 image

[Virt Man]

Hi There

I am able to create qcow2 image using packet.io basic installation of RH7 makes qcow2 image size 4GB. This looks like quite huge. Is there any way I can pass the commands to compress the image ? 

Thanks

VirtM  

[Rickard von Essen]

See https://packer.io/docs/builders/qemu.html#disk_compression

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[Virt Man]

Splendid... this worked wonderful.  

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