Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 13/14] util: storagefile: Don't traverse storage sources unusable by VM

virStorageFileGetMetadataRecurse would include in the backing chain files which would not really be usable by libvirt directly e.g. when

such file would be promoted to the top layer by a active block commit as

for example inline authentication data can't be represented in the VM xml file. The idea is to use secrets for this. With the changes to the backing store string parsers we can report and propagate if such a thing is present in the configuration and thus start skipping those files in the backing chain traversal code. This approach still allows to report the appropriate backing store string in the storage driver which doesn't directly use the backing file. Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/util/virstoragefile.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)