Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] lib: Autodetect backing format and specify it explicitly.

In the guestfs_disk_create API we have traditionally allowed you to set backingfile without setting backingformat. The meaning of this is to let qemu autodetect the backing format when opening the overlay disk. However libvirt >= 6.0 refuses to even pass such disks to qemu (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1798148). For this reason, move the autodetection earlier and make it explicit. We now autodetect the format of the backing disk at the time of creation of the overlay, and set that as the backing format in the overlay disk itself, allowing libvirt to open the disk later. --- lib/create.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/create.c b/lib/create.c index e2a59b88d..e30286c39 100644 --- a/lib/create.c +++ b/lib/create.c @@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ disk_create_qcow2 (guestfs_h *g, const char *filename, int64_t size, const struct guestfs_disk_create_argv *optargs) { const char *backingformat = NULL; + CLEANUP_FREE char *backingformat_free = NULL; const char *preallocation = NULL; const char *compat = NULL; int clustersize = -1; @@ -302,6 +303,18 @@ disk_create_qcow2 (guestfs_h *g, const char *filename, int64_t size, } } + /* With libvirt >= 6.0 the backing format must be specified. */ + if (backingfile != NULL && backingformat == NULL) { + backingformat = backingformat_free = guestfs_disk_format (g, backingfile); + if (!backingformat) + return -1; + if (STREQ (backingformat, "unknown")) { + error (g, _("could not auto-detect the format of the backing file %s"), + backingfile); + return -1; + } + }