On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 12:36:37PM +0100, Ján Tomko wrote:
On 02/05/13 18:14, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
I can understand why you're doing this, but gives me a really bad feeling. After 5 years we've finally stopped parsing -help from the QEMU binary...only to start doing the same for qemu-img.
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IMHO we should just invoke qemu-img with the feature list we have, and rely on it to report any unsupported features itself, rather than trying to pre-detect them ourselves.
Daniel
I only did it because of the 'compat' feature, which might be needed to create qcow2 images in the future, if the default of qemu-img gets changed to qcow3.
Well IMHO that would be a mistake on QMEU's part. IMHO they ought to just allow the user to specify an explicit '-f qcow3' to get all the latests qcow3 format features enabled and leave '-f qcow2' on its current behaviour forever. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|