Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] lib: Autodetect backing format and specify it explicitly.
On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 11:25:07AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
Libvirt doesn't do format probing in all cases, but since the
6.1.0
release we do it in enough cases to fix the regressions wrt previous
libvirt behaviour. So IIUC, there shouldn't be a need for libguestfs
(or other apps) to work around this, except for with 6.0.0 specifically.
That one release could be blacklisted, or left as a docs issue.
Alright I'll revert this patch and note the issue in the
release notes.
Thanks everyone.
Rich.
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