Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Always specify qcow2 compat level on qemu-img command line

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 01:31:41PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote: > qemu-img is going to switch the default for QCOW2 > to QCOW2v3 (compat=1.1) [0] > > Extend the probing for qemu-img command line options to check > if -o compat is supported. If the volume definition specifies > the qcow2 format but no compat level and -o compat is supported, > specify -o compat=0.10 to create a QCOW2v2 image. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=997977 > --- > [0] the switch is not yet upstream. The proposed (incomplete) QEMU patch: > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-08/msg02549.html ACK,

Incidentally, it sucks that while we've solved the capabilities detection problem for QEMU avoiding the need to use -help or similar args, we now re-introduce the problem for qemu-img. Daniel.