[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1474263] Re: "Image format was not specified" warning should be suppressed for the vvfat (and probably nbd) driver

2018-07-11 Thread Max Reitz
Yes, it does appear, you just need to make vvfat rw: $ qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file.driver=vvfat,file.dir=foo,file.rw=on vvfat foo chs 1024,16,63 WARNING: Image format was not specified for 'json:{"dir": "foo", "driver": "vvfat", "rw": "on"}' and probing guessed raw. Automatically

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1474263] Re: "Image format was not specified" warning should be suppressed for the vvfat (and probably nbd) driver

2018-07-11 Thread Thomas Huth
Looking through old bug tickets... can you still reproduce this bug with the latest version of QEMU? At least for vvfat, the warning message does not seem to occur anymore. ** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1474263] Re: "Image format was not specified" warning should be suppressed for the vvfat (and probably nbd) driver

2016-07-05 Thread felix
> I could actually see the use of non-raw over NBD. We support nested > protocols (where you can use qcow2->qcow2->file), that is, where a file > contains a qcow2 file whose contents are themselves a qcow2 image. > (Perhaps useful in nested guests, where the outer qcow2 layer serves a > disk to

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1474263] Re: Image format was not specified warning should be suppressed for the vvfat (and probably nbd) driver

2015-07-16 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:54:47AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: On 07/15/2015 09:42 AM, Max Reitz wrote: Hi, Indeed using non-raw images should not be used over NBD. The warning however is not superfluous, since qemu does indeed probe the image format, so a malicious guest might write a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1474263] Re: Image format was not specified warning should be suppressed for the vvfat (and probably nbd) driver

2015-07-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/15/2015 09:42 AM, Max Reitz wrote: Hi, Indeed using non-raw images should not be used over NBD. The warning however is not superfluous, since qemu does indeed probe the image format, so a malicious guest might write a qcow2 header into the raw image, thus making qemu probe a qcow2

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1474263] Re: Image format was not specified warning should be suppressed for the vvfat (and probably nbd) driver

2015-07-15 Thread Max Reitz
Hi, Indeed using non-raw images should not be used over NBD. The warning however is not superfluous, since qemu does indeed probe the image format, so a malicious guest might write a qcow2 header into the raw image, thus making qemu probe a qcow2 image the next time the same configuration is