Re: [libvirt-users] Immutable backing files

2018-09-06 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 06-09-2018 12:54 Peter Krempa ha scritto: You forgot to specify the format of the backing file into the overlay file (qemu-img option -F). Libvirt treats any unspecified format as raw since it's not secure to do probing of the format. Hi, the immutable base file *was* a raw image. Then a qco

Re: [libvirt-users] Immutable backing files

2018-09-06 Thread Peter Krempa
On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 17:32:49 +0200, Gionatan Danti wrote: > Il 03-09-2018 13:14 Gionatan Danti ha scritto: > > Hi list, > > suppose I have an immutable (ie: due to a read-only snapshot) backing > > file. > > > > After creating an overlay file with "qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o > > backing_file=