[libvirt] [PATCH 10/11] Rewrite qemu-img backing store format handling

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Thu Jul 15 17:06:06 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 02:30:47PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> When creating qcow2 files with a backing store, it is important
> to set an explicit format to prevent QEMU probing. The storage
> backend was only doing this if it found a 'kvm-img' binary. This
> is wrong because plenty of kvm-img binaries don't support an
> explicit format, and plenty of 'qemu-img' binaries do support
> a format. The result was that most qcow2 files were not getting
> a backing store format.
> 
> This patch runs 'qemu-img -h' to check for the two support
> argument formats
> 
>   '-o backing_format=raw'
>   '-F raw'
> 
> and use whichever option it finds
> 
> * src/storage/storage_backend.c: Query binary to determine
>   how to set the backing store format
> ---
>  src/storage/storage_backend.c |  214 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)

 ACK,

Daniel

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