6 Feb
2013
6 Feb
'13
11:36 a.m.
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. Jan