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Re: [Qemu-devel] using "qemu-img convert -O qcow2" to convert qcow v1 to
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John Snow |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] using "qemu-img convert -O qcow2" to convert qcow v1 to v2 creates a qcow v3 file? |
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Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:38:05 -0500 |
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On 11/14/2017 03:35 PM, Max Reitz wrote:
> On 2017-11-14 21:30, John Snow wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 11/14/2017 01:46 PM, Max Reitz wrote:
>>> On 2017-11-14 19:45, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>>> On 14.11.2017 14:32, Max Reitz wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>> Well, do you want to document it? I'd rather deprecate it altogether.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe a first step could be to change qemu-img so that it refuses to
>>>> create new qcow1 images (but still can convert them into other formats).
>>>> So basically make qcow1 read-only?
>>>
>>> Yep, and the actual first step to that is to make it issue a deprecation
>>> warning when creating qcow v1 images (which is what I proposed). :-)
>>>
>>> Max
>>>
>>
>> Deprecation warning is good.
>>
>> In future versions you can shimmy it behind a
>> --no-really-I-want-this-old-format option, I think we ought to support
>> creating the images for as long as is technologically convenient.
>
> Well, at some point you can also demand from users to just dig out some
> old version of qemu-img to convert their qcow v1 images to qcow2. It's
> not like they are going to miss out on anything.
>
As long is convenient. I won't throw a fit that it needs to be around
forever, but as long as it's sufficiently guarded from use and isn't
hard to keep around I'd prefer to do that.
I suppose it's just a weak preference.
> (If you deprecate emulated hardware, users may complain that they don't
> get the newest qemu features/bugfixes/... while continuing to use that
> hardware, so I can see that it's a tough decision whether to deprecate
> that. But it's not like you are going to lose any features or anything
> if you convert your dusty images to qcow2. On the contrary, we're
> helping you to get more performance out of them. Maybe qemu should just
> silently convert qcow v1 images to qcow2 without asking the user, like
> Apple did...)
>
> Max
>
"Like Apple did" seems sufficient justification to never do that, but
maybe that's just my own opinion.
- [Qemu-devel] using "qemu-img convert -O qcow2" to convert qcow v1 to v2 creates a qcow v3 file?, Peter Maydell, 2017/11/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] using "qemu-img convert -O qcow2" to convert qcow v1 to v2 creates a qcow v3 file?, Peter Maydell, 2017/11/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] using "qemu-img convert -O qcow2" to convert qcow v1 to v2 creates a qcow v3 file?, Eric Blake, 2017/11/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] using "qemu-img convert -O qcow2" to convert qcow v1 to v2 creates a qcow v3 file?, Eric Blake, 2017/11/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] using "qemu-img convert -O qcow2" to convert qcow v1 to v2 creates a qcow v3 file?, Max Reitz, 2017/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] using "qemu-img convert -O qcow2" to convert qcow v1 to v2 creates a qcow v3 file?, Thomas Huth, 2017/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] using "qemu-img convert -O qcow2" to convert qcow v1 to v2 creates a qcow v3 file?, Max Reitz, 2017/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] using "qemu-img convert -O qcow2" to convert qcow v1 to v2 creates a qcow v3 file?, John Snow, 2017/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] using "qemu-img convert -O qcow2" to convert qcow v1 to v2 creates a qcow v3 file?, Max Reitz, 2017/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] using "qemu-img convert -O qcow2" to convert qcow v1 to v2 creates a qcow v3 file?,
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] using "qemu-img convert -O qcow2" to convert qcow v1 to v2 creates a qcow v3 file?, Max Reitz, 2017/11/14
Re: [Qemu-devel] using "qemu-img convert -O qcow2" to convert qcow v1 to v2 creates a qcow v3 file?, Eric Blake, 2017/11/13