[et-mgmt-tools] [PATCH] virt-convert: check for qemu-img failure

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:51:49AM -0700, David Lutterkort wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 17:11 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Yes that kinda sucks. When I added the storage pool/volume APis to
> > libvirt I basically re-implemented the file magic checks directly
> > rather than parse qemu-info.
> 
> Is there any way to get that upstream into qemu rather than forcing
> libvirt to deal with these fairly low-level issues ?

The idea of providing a library API gets raise every 6 months or so but 
no one ever wants to commit to a stable ABI with QEMU internals, so it
doesn't go anywhere useful. I don't expect that to change any time soon
since QEMU is still evolving quite significantly under the hood.

Daniel
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