[libvirt] [PATCH 0/3] storage: drop support for qcow-create, kvm-img

John Ferlan jferlan at redhat.com
Wed Apr 20 12:10:22 UTC 2016



On 04/15/2016 05:21 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> I don't think we need to try and support qcow-create or kvm-img
> binaries anymore; everywhere we care about should have a
> /usr/bin/qemu-img. See patches for more details
> 
> Cole Robinson (3):
>   storage: remove support for /usr/bin/qcow-create
>   storage: remove support for /usr/bin/kvm-img
>   storage: drop the plumbing needed for kvm-img/qcow-create
> 
>  src/qemu/qemu_domain.c           |   2 +-
>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c           |   4 +-
>  src/storage/storage_backend.c    | 131 ++-------------------------------------
>  src/storage/storage_backend.h    |   9 ++-
>  src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c |  21 ++-----
>  src/util/virfile.c               |   2 +-
>  tests/virstoragetest.c           |   4 +-
>  7 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 155 deletions(-)
> 

ACK series in general (see my note in 3/3)...   I always wondered about
the history of this code as I was trudging through it for buildVol.

Your call on how long you want to wait to see if anyone comes back with
the "no we cannot remove this because" type response (of course there's
always git revert!

John




More information about the libvir-list mailing list