[libvirt-users] How to set image format to 'qcow2'

[李文兵]

Try this:

<disk type="file" device="disk">
    <driver name="qemu" type="qcow2"/>
    <source file='/home/eucalyptus/imgs/xp.img'/>
    <target dev="hda" bus="ide" />
</disk>



On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:12 PM, 姜晓东 <jxd431 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi, all
>
> My xml 'dom1.xml' is as following:
> <domain type='kvm' id='1'>
> <name>kvm-xp</name>
> <description>xp kvm</description>
> <memory>524288</memory>
> <currentMemory>524288</currentMemory>
> <os>
> <type>hvm</type>
> <!--loader>/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader</loader-->
> <boot dev="hd"/>
> </os>
> <devices>
> <disk type='file'>
> <source file='/home/eucalyptus/imgs/xp.img'/>
> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
> </disk>
> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/>
> <!--graphics type="sdl" display=':0.0'/-->
> <!--graphics type="desktop" fullscreen='yes'/-->
> <graphics type='vnc' port='5904'/>
> </devices>
> </domain>
>
> In this xml file, I don't know how to set disk file format to 'qcow2'.
> When I create domain using this command:
> virsh create dom1.xml
>
> I cannot boot the image file. The log file
> /var/log/libvirt/qemu/kvm-xp.log is as following:
>
> LC_ALL=C
>
> PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.4.3
> HOME=/root USER=root QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc -m 512
> -smp 1 -name kvm-xp -uuid a8cbae31-59a0-0bc5-4416-65ba63aa4231 -monitor
> unix:/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/kvm-xp.monitor,server,nowait -no-acpi -boot c
> -drive file=/home/eucalyptus/imgs/xp.img,if=ide,bus=0,unit=0,format=raw
> -net none -serial none -parallel none -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:4 -vga cirrus
> -balloon virtio
>
> I don't know how to set format argument to 'qcow2'
>
> ----------------
> Xiaodong Jiang
> jxd431 at gmail.com
>
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