On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 20:36:26 +0100, Gionatan Danti wrote:
Il 2022-11-26 10:36 Gionatan Danti ha scritto:
Il 2022-11-21 10:30 Peter Krempa ha scritto:
In regards to the 'compat' option in terms of snapshots/blockcopy, we don't set it and thus use the qemu default. Since both operations create a new image with an existing qemu instance, the default new qemu format is okay.
Hi, some idea on why creating a qcow2 volume and snapshotting it via a backing file results in two qcow2 files with different format (v2 vs v3)? Example below:
# volume creation [root@whitehole ~]# virsh vol-create-as default zzz.qcow2 1G --format qcow2 Vol zzz.qcow2 created
[root@whitehole ~]# qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/zzz.qcow2 image: /var/lib/libvirt/images/zzz.qcow2 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 1 GiB (1073741824 bytes) disk size: 16.5 KiB cluster_size: 65536 Format specific information: compat: 0.10 compression type: zlib refcount bits: 16
[root@whitehole ~]# file /var/lib/libvirt/images/zzz.qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images/zzz.qcow2: QEMU QCOW2 Image (v2), 1073741824 bytes
# snapshot creation [root@whitehole ~]# virsh snapshot-create-as zzz --name zsnap1 --disk-only Domain snapshot zsnap1 created
[root@whitehole ~]# qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/zzz.zsnap1 image: /var/lib/libvirt/images/zzz.zsnap1 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 1 GiB (1073741824 bytes) disk size: 16.5 KiB cluster_size: 65536 backing file: /var/lib/libvirt/images/zzz.qcow2 backing file format: qcow2 Format specific information: compat: 1.1 compression type: zlib lazy refcounts: false refcount bits: 16 corrupt: false extended l2: false
[root@whitehole ~]# file /var/lib/libvirt/images/zzz.zsnap1 /var/lib/libvirt/images/zzz.zsnap1: QEMU QCOW2 Image (v3), has backing file (path /var/lib/libvirt/images/zzz.qcow2), 1073741824 bytes
Regards.
Hi all, anyone with some ideas/suggestions?
Hi, When creating a snapshot libvirt uses the qemu default for the created qcow2 image's version which is now v3. Do you have any specific use case for keeping them in v2 mode?