6.76 (SPARC Only) Sparse Copy for Virtual Disks Not Supported

Although Oracle VM Manager provides the option to add a sparse-allocate virtual disk to a virtual machine, cloning the virtual machine results in a non-sparse file for the cloned virtual machine. This is because sparse copy is not supported by the Solaris dd command.

Bug 14851945

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