On 08/19/2013 11:25 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> By the time that qemu 1.7 will be released, enough time will has passed
> since qemu 1.1, which is the first version to understand version 3
> images, that changing the default shouldn't hurt many people any more
> and the benefits of using the new format outweigh the pain.
>
> qemu-iotests already runs with compat=1.1 by default.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com>
> ---
> block/qcow2.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/qcow2.c b/block/qcow2.c
> index 3376901..42ea7ec 100644
> --- a/block/qcow2.c
> +++ b/block/qcow2.c
> @@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@ static int qcow2_create(const char *filename,
> QEMUOptionParameter *options)
> int flags = 0;
> size_t cluster_size = DEFAULT_CLUSTER_SIZE;
> int prealloc = 0;
> - int version = 2;
> + int version = 3;
>
> /* Read out options */
> while (options && options->name) {
>
This does not affect qemu-img (or bdrv_img_create), as it gets overwritten
with 2 when BLOCK_OPT_COMPAT_LEVEL is present in options, but the value is NULL.
Should this go into qcow2_create_options[] as well?
Jan
