Assuming the image is hosted on a private registry or a public mirror, use wget or curl . Replace the URL placeholder with your actual source.

The gains are primarily due to the optimized cluster size and aggressive caching defaults in the backing file.

If you need help tailoring this disk image configuration further, tell me:

In the context of enterprise virtualization, particularly on platforms like or OpenStack , you often use a base pavmkvm801.qcow2 file to spin up a "new" instance, leveraging the copy-on-write (COW) capabilities to save disk space and time.