Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: treat iso images as raw

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 03:04:08PM +0300, Nikolay Shirokovskiy wrote: > if image format probing is on and image format of iso file > is not specified qemu fail to start a domain or change disk > media giving errors like [1]. The problem is format is being > detected as 'iso' and qemu expect format to be raw for iso > images. > > It makes sense to me because iso refers to filesystem format > in image not image format itself. Thus let's just convert > iso to raw in case of qemu. > > There is a similar patch for storage pools - 0e5db762. > > [1] Unknown driver 'iso' > > --- > > ISO as image format was added right at the beginning by e266ded2f > without any further comments. Maybe we just can drop ISO from image > formats entirely as it is not image format or some hypervisors > treat it in a special way? Yeah, I'm inclined to say we can drop it. I don't recall either Xen or QEMU caring about an 'iso' disk format

> src/qemu/qemu_domain.c | 7 ++++++- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c > index c7c9e94..3da9271 100644 > --- a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c > +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c > @@ -6023,8 +6023,13 @@ qemuDomainDetermineDiskChain(virQEMUDriverPtr driver, > if (virStorageFileGetMetadata(disk->src, > uid, gid, > cfg->allowDiskFormatProbing, > - report_broken) < 0) > + report_broken) < 0) { > ret = -1; > + goto cleanup; > + } > + > + if (virDomainDiskGetFormat(disk) == VIR_STORAGE_FILE_ISO) > + virDomainDiskSetFormat(disk, VIR_STORAGE_FILE_RAW);