id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host 5967,use posix_fallocate() for preallocated hard disks when possible,bjacke,,when creating a new hard disk it would be good if preallocated (fixes size) hard disks would be created via posix_fallocate when that call is availbale. On recent Linux systems this call will allocate the whole space very fast and efficiently when XFS or ext4 is being used as filesystem.,enhancement,closed,other,VirtualBox 3.1.2,fixed,,,other,other