[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1776920] Re: qemu-img convert on Mac OSX creates corrupt images

[John Snow]

My hunch is that we're handling zero regions incorrectly and we might be
skipping data regions we ought to be copying.

...I'm looking at the `image2.qemu` file you've uploaded and it's empty!
we didn't copy *anything* from your source file.

Try converting with '-S 0` to disable sparse protection and see if that
might help.

  '-S' indicates the consecutive number of bytes (defaults to 4k) that must
       contain only zeros for qemu-img to create a sparse image during
       conversion. If the number of bytes is 0, the source will not be scanned 
for
       unallocated or zero sectors, and the destination image will always be
       fully allocated

If that helps, I'd take a look at img_convert in qemu-img.c ...

convert_iteration_sectors looks relevant, it appears to help us know
which sectors to copy when called by convert_co_do_copy.

Tracing around "convert_co_read" in the same function might also help us
to know which portions of the image we're even deciding to read; and we
could probably track backwards from there to figure out which
condition(s) are disqualifying us if we're deciding not to copy data.

My current hunch is that bdrv_block_status[_above] is returning
something wrong when backed by APFS.

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Title:
  qemu-img convert on Mac OSX creates corrupt images

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  An image created by qemu-img create, then modified by another program
  is converted to bad/corrupt image when using convert sub command on
  Mac OSX. The same convert works on Linux. The version of qemu-img is
  2.12.

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