Hi Leo, Our new internal build system are using ubuntu 14.04 or something like that, which has qemu 1.x installed by default, that's why I added the "compat" option in the build script, otherwise, the image build by qemu 1.x, won't work on RHEL 6.x. The fix would be, in the build script, check the version of qemu-img, if it's 0.x, then don't add "compat" option. There are a lot of people still using RHEL 6.x as KVM hypervisor, we have to make sure the image we build can still work on these machines.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Leo Simons <lsim...@schubergphilis.com> wrote: > Hey Edison, all, > > > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/commit/05bec59c1498dbcfb8a1089c86855fd3b433ea58 > > breaks our internal build with > > + qemu-img convert -o compat=0.10 -f raw -c -O qcow2 raw.img \ > systemvmtemplate-systemvm-persistent-config-4.5.0.124-kvm.qcow2 > Unknown option 'compat' > qemu-img: Invalid options for file format 'qcow2'. > > This is on CentOS release 6.6, which has qemu-img-0.15.0-1.el6.rfx.x86_64. > > Based on > http://wiki.qemu.org/OlderNews > that seems like it is a really old qemu (august 2011). > > I'm guessing you have a newer OS / newer qemu? Can you please let me know > what OS, OS version and qemu(-img) version you are using? > > Also, does anyone know if there some minimum version of qemu-img that should > be used / cloudstack assumes? Is 0.15 still ok to do an acceptable image > conversion with? (we currently don't have any kvm use ourselves, but, I'd > like for our build infra to produce useful kvm images nonetheless). > > According to > http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.1 > the -o compat switch was introduced in 1.1. > > According to > https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/9117b47717ad208b12786ce88eacb013f9b3dd1c > the default format was changed from 0.10 to 1.1 in qemu 1.7 and onwards. > > The libvirt people > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=997977 > say they pass -o compat when qemu supports it (so when v >= 1.1 I imagine). > > I think we should do the same in the build script and I'll make a patch. > > But, should we publish newer-format images too? According to > http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Qcow3 > the new format is much better so I imagine qcow/kvm users will really > appreciate the newer formats. > > Thoughts? > > > cheers, > > > Leo > -- Best Regards, Edison
