[Libguestfs] [PATCH] lib: Autodetect backing format and specify it explicitly.

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Mon Mar 9 12:37:58 UTC 2020


On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 11:25:07AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> Libvirt doesn't do format probing in all cases, but since the 6.1.0
> release we do it in enough cases to fix the regressions wrt previous
> libvirt behaviour. So IIUC, there shouldn't be a need for libguestfs
> (or other apps) to work around this, except for with 6.0.0 specifically.
> That one release could be blacklisted, or left as a docs issue.

Alright I'll revert this patch and note the issue in the
release notes.

Thanks everyone.

Rich.

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