[libvirt] backing file chains, -blockdev, and storage file autodetection

[Martin Wilck]

On Wed, 2020-01-08 at 15:49 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> 
> I wonder if there's any scope for improving qemu-img here so that it
> can 'do the right thing', or at least issue a warning if the suer
> doesn't set a backing format. 

Yes, someone should send a patch that would make qemu-img print a big
fat warning when a backing file was specified without "-F".

Regards,
Martin

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