Am 07.11.2011 08:46, schrieb Zhi Hui Li: > > when I trace the code of qemu-img.c， I found in the image file, the > backing_file use the relative path, I think Maybe it has some problems. > > for example: > > 1: qemu-img create -o backing_file=../xxxx aa.img 5G > > 2: qemu-system-x86_64 aa.img > > if you change aa.img's the path, the exec is wrong,it can't find the > backing_file path, because the backing_file use the relative path, > Could we change the relative path to the absolute path?
No, we can't. That would break compatibility of qemu-img create with older versions. Relative paths have well-defined semantics, they are relative to the image file. Kevin
