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Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] raw: Disable probing if image form


From: Lin Ma
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] raw: Disable probing if image format is given by driver-specific options
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:05:07 +0800
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On 01/23/2018 12:45 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
On 2018-01-22 08:21, Lin Ma wrote:
If the user specifies image format through driver-specific options, The
format probing should be prohibited and the warning message should not
be printed.

e.g.:
$ qemu-system-x86_64 ... -drive file.file.filename=disk0.raw,file.driver=raw ...
WARNING: Image format was not specified for 'disk0.raw' and probing guessed raw.
          Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, ...

Signed-off-by: Lin Ma <address@hidden>
---
  blockdev.c | 2 ++
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
But what has been proped is the driver for the root BDS, so the warning
is actually correct.

(That command line is creating a chain of three BDS:
raw (probed) -> raw (explicitly specified) -> file (default protocol))

Max

OK, Thanks
Lin



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