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

[Cole Robinson]

On 04/20/2016 08:10 AM, John Ferlan wrote:
> 
> 
> 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!
> 

Dan probably has the most context on the history here, CCd for his opinion
(see patch #1 and #2 for what I could drum up on qcow-create and kvm-img
relevancy)

- Cole