On 03/23/2015 11:23 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 20/03/2015 15:19, Markus Armbruster wrote: >>> If (a working version of) this makes it in 2.3, libvirt WILL use it in >>> the next release. It will take me less than 5 minutes to write up the >>> libvirt patch, as long as the new option is advertised via >>> query-command-line-options (which means that QMP introspection of the >>> new option is a must for v2 :) > > Why can't libvirt just add ,format=raw instead of leaving out the format > key altogether?
Libvirt DOES add format=raw. This patch is an extra insurance policy to guarantee that libvirt does not have any code paths that omit the explicit format (as we have had a couple of CVEs in libvirt over the years where that was the case). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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