[Libguestfs] nbdkit & qemu 2.12: qemu-img: Protocol error: simple reply when structured reply chunk was expected

[John Snow]

On 3/23/19 8:21 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 06:57:14AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 3/23/19 6:42 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> (b) Try and get it fixed in RHEL.  I filed a BZ already but I guess it
>>> won't be fixed any time soon: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1692018
>>
>> Several RHEL 7 bugs against NBD are pending - there's hope for RHEL 7.7,
>> but you are also right that guessing timelines is hard.
> 
> Yes, my worry is that if we miss 7.7 then this bug will exist forever
> since as far as I know we (Red Hat) are not planning any further qemu
> improvements in 7.8 and above.
> 

Feel free to add some ACKs to the lengthy backports I've posted in 7.7
recently ...

3.1.0 NBD Roundup is probably particularly of interest to you right now.

I'm working on 4.0.0 NBD roundup right now, too.