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Hyperkit: use raw disk format instead of qcow2 #1341

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Few years ago, Apple started to ship macOS with APFS. It supports sparse files allowing us to use raw file format.

According to Docker Desktop release notes, we can expect a factor 2 for disk performance:

For systems running APFS on SSD on High Sierra, use raw format VM disks by default. This improves disk throughput (from 320MiB/sec to 600MiB/sec in dd on a 2015 MacBook Pro) and disk space handling.

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