Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] German BSI analysed security of KVM / QEMU

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 16.10.2017 um 15:38 hat Daniel P. Berrange geschrieben:
> > Another thing that made me a bit sad is that they mention qed as a
> > better performing alternative for qcow2. Even in 2017, people keep
> > spreading this nonsense. :-(
> 
> Probably because when you google for QED you inevitably hit this article
> near the top:
> 
>   https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTY0MQ
> 
> And there's little clear information on QEMU website to show that QED
> is essentially an obsolete experiment.
> 
> Perhaps some clear update to this page would help, and also in the
> qemu docs
> 
>   https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QED

I updated the wiki page, maybe this will help a bit.

We could also consider printing a warning when you create a new image in
an obsolete native qemu format (i.e. qcow1 and qed).

Kevin