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thanks Richard, The experiment was indeed done with nested VM enabled. I am not sure about the internals, but i thought once overlay is setup the 2 main processes are sshd and qemu-img convert (reading data from sshd and doing the conversion) I don't see any of the qemu process running. Initial overlay setup was pretty quick and rest of the time was spent in qemu-img convert operation Suresh