[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: treat iso images as raw

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Oct 26 12:09:25 UTC 2017


On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 03:04:08PM +0300, Nikolay Shirokovskiy wrote:
> if image format probing is on and image format of iso file
> is not specified qemu fail to start a domain or change disk
> media giving errors like [1]. The problem is format is being
> detected as 'iso' and qemu expect format to be raw for iso
> images.
> 
> It makes sense to me because iso refers to filesystem format
> in image not image format itself. Thus let's just convert
> iso to raw in case of qemu.
> 
> There is a similar patch for storage pools - 0e5db762.
> 
> [1] Unknown driver 'iso'
> 
> ---
> 
> ISO as image format was added right at the beginning by e266ded2f
> without any further comments. Maybe we just can drop ISO from image
> formats entirely as it is not image format or some hypervisors
> treat it in a special way?

Yeah, I'm inclined to say we can drop it. I don't recall either Xen or
QEMU caring about an 'iso' disk format

> 
>  src/qemu/qemu_domain.c | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
> index c7c9e94..3da9271 100644
> --- a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
> +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
> @@ -6023,8 +6023,13 @@ qemuDomainDetermineDiskChain(virQEMUDriverPtr driver,
>      if (virStorageFileGetMetadata(disk->src,
>                                    uid, gid,
>                                    cfg->allowDiskFormatProbing,
> -                                  report_broken) < 0)
> +                                  report_broken) < 0) {
>          ret = -1;
> +        goto cleanup;
> +    }
> +
> +    if (virDomainDiskGetFormat(disk) == VIR_STORAGE_FILE_ISO)
> +        virDomainDiskSetFormat(disk, VIR_STORAGE_FILE_RAW);
>  
>   cleanup:
>      virObjectUnref(cfg);
> -- 

Regards,
Daniel
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