Jamie Lokier wrote: > Ram Pai wrote: >> I have successfully verified qcow2 files. But then I may not be trying >> out the exact thing that you are talking about. Can you give me a test >> case that I can verify. > > Commands tried with qemu-0.10.0-1ubuntu1: > > $ mkdir unlikely_subdir > $ cd unlikely_subdir > $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 backing.img 10 > Formatting 'backing.img', fmt=qcow2, size=10 kB > $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b ../unlikely_subdir/backing.img main.img 10 > Formatting 'main.img', fmt=qcow2, > backing_file=../unlikely_subdir/backing.img, size=10 kB > $ cd .. > $ qemu-img info unlikely_subdir/main.img > image: unlikely_subdir/main.img > file format: qcow2 > virtual size: 10K (10240 bytes) > disk size: 16K > cluster_size: 4096 > highest_alloc: 16384 > backing file: ../unlikely_subdir/backing.img (actual path: > unlikely_subdir/../unlikely_subdir/backing.img) > > See especially the "actual path" line. > > $ mv unlikely_subdir other_subdir > $ ls -l other_subdir > total 32 > -rw-r--r-- 1 jamie jamie 16384 2009-07-15 21:59 backing.img > -rw-r--r-- 1 jamie jamie 16384 2009-07-15 21:59 main.img > $ qemu-img info other_subdir/main.img > qemu-img: Could not open 'other_subdir/main.img' > > What an unhelpful error message... There isn't even a way to find out > the backing file path which the tool is looking for.
strace :p But I feel your pain. This screams for better error reporting. > >> And one other thing. Let me know if there a test-suite that I can try >> for regressions. > > Sorry, I don't know anything about any QEMU test suites. There is kvm autotest, but that's testing at a coarser level. Well, Anthony promised to push some unit test framework for QEMU... Jan
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