On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 04:16:46PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 07:42:20PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > > This feature allows you to use different image formats for the fixed > > appliance. The raw format is used by default. > > I wonder if you're stil using this feature? > > Unfortunately because of a recent change in libvirt it is no longer > possible to have a backing file where libvirt will autodetect the > format. See: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1798148#c3 > > Therefore the only way to actually do this now would be either for > libguestfs to detect the format (there is an API for this: > guestfs_disk_format), or else to hard code the format in the > ./configure option. > > In any case I will need to revert this until we can think of something > else (if you still need the feature) because it will simply break with > libvirt >= 6.0.
Actually I can think of a way where we wouldn't need to revert this. However I'm still interested in whether you are using this feature or not. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
