[Libguestfs] Virt-install, virt-customize, virt-builder

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 04:11:59PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 04:40:15PM +0200, Nguetchouang Ngongang Kevin wrote:
> > I want to achieve the external data file creation
> > 
> > "qemu-img create -o data_file_raw=on,data_file=path/to/file"
> > 
> > but there is no way to specify those options while using virt-builder.
> 
> Interesting - I had no idea about this feature before.
> 
> At the moment it's not possible to do this within virt-builder,
> without patching virt-builder.  I guess maybe you can post-convert the
> file after virt-builder has run?
> 
> I grepped the source of virt-install and it doesn't seem like it has
> support either.  Nor does libvirt.
> 
> It should be possible to use virt-customize on these special qcow2
> files, although I didn't try it.

I talked to Kevin and apparently this feature was added to qemu to
support a particular downstream project (oVirt), but in the end they
didn't use it and also support was never added to libvirt.  So it
doesn't particularly sound like this is a well tested or widely used
feature ...

Rich.

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