Note: A VM image on NFS storage might not work. I had success with local and iSCSI storage.
--disk path=$IMAGEFILE,format=qcow2,bus=scsi,discard=unmap \ --controller scsi,model=virtio-scsi \
$ grep "" /sys/block/sda/queue/discard_* /sys/block/sda/queue/discard_granularity:4096 /sys/block/sda/queue/discard_max_bytes:1073741824 /sys/block/sda/queue/discard_zeroes_data:0 $ cat /sys/block/sda/device/scsi_disk/*/provisioning_mode unmap
issue_discards = 1
cd /var/tmp/ time dd if=/dev/urandom of=tstfile bs=2048k count=512 oflag=direct
fstrim -v /var
$ ls -ls vmcentos.qcow2 1226824 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody kvm 1256325120 Dec 2 21:59 vmcentos.qcow2 1355912 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody kvm 1388511232 Dec 2 21:59 vmcentos.qcow2 1552968 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody kvm 1589837824 Dec 2 21:59 vmcentos.qcow2 1755128 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody kvm 1796943872 Dec 2 22:00 vmcentos.qcow2 1949832 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody kvm 1996685312 Dec 2 22:00 vmcentos.qcow2 2156152 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody kvm 2207477760 Dec 2 22:00 vmcentos.qcow2 2245256 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody kvm 2299199488 Dec 2 22:00 vmcentos.qcow2 2245256 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody kvm 2299199488 Dec 2 22:00 vmcentos.qcow2 2245256 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody kvm 2299199488 Dec 2 22:00 vmcentos.qcow2 2245256 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody kvm 2299199488 Dec 2 22:00 vmcentos.qcow2 2245256 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody kvm 2299199488 Dec 2 22:00 vmcentos.qcow2 1130376 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody kvm 2299199488 Dec 2 22:00 vmcentos.qcow2 1130376 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody kvm 2299199488 Dec 2 22:00 vmcentos.qcow2 1130376 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody kvm 2299199488 Dec 2 22:00 vmcentos.qcow2 1130376 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody kvm 2299199488 Dec 2 22:00 vmcentos.qcow2