Control: reassign -1 qemu
Control: retitle -1 qemu-img create -f qcow2 ... segfaults on mips

* Richard W.M. Jones:

> I actually have libguestfs running on mipsel at home.  It's very slow
> indeed :-(

The problem occurs only on mips, not on mipsel. This may be an endianess
problem, I'm going to have a closer look.

> Anyway, it looks as if the segfault is happening in the `qemu-img'
> utility.  The command which fails is:
>
>   qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o preallocation=metadata blank-disk-1s.qcow2 512
>
> (You could just run that command on its own on the same hardware to
> see if you can reproduce it).

I can reproduce it on one of Debian's mips porterboxes. It happens when
generating qcow2 images, apparently regardless of size and options.

> This bug should probably be reassigned to qemu.

I agree.

Cheers,
-Hilko

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