Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 4/9] Add support for encrypted (qcow) volume creation.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 01:12:00PM +0200, Miloslav Trma?? wrote: > Supports only virStorageVolCreateXML, not virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom. > > Curiously, qemu-img does not need the passphrase for anything to create > an encrypted volume. This implementation is sufficient for the qcow2 > format, and for other formats when all encryption parameters are > pre-specified. I believe that qemu-img only requires the passphrase if it is going to actually write data blocks to the file. Thus creating an empty file doesn't need it, but in the code path which clones an existing file it would need it. eg, virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom() would need it if you had implemented that - indeed that would potentially need both the source and destination keys.