[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] vl.c: Since the help says that 'disk_image' is a raw hard disk image, pass format=raw

[Don Slutz]

~/qemu/out/master/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -h | head
QEMU emulator version 2.3.50, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
usage: qemu-system-x86_64 [options] [disk_image]

'disk_image' is a raw hard disk image for IDE hard disk 0

Standard options:
...

Signed-off-by: Don Slutz <dsl...@verizon.com>
---
 vl.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index 74c2681..93e674f 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -1084,6 +1084,7 @@ static int cleanup_add_fd(QemuOpts *opts, void *opaque)
 /* QEMU Block devices */
 
 #define HD_OPTS "media=disk"
+#define HD_OPTS_RAW "media=disk,format=raw"
 #define CDROM_OPTS "media=cdrom"
 #define FD_OPTS ""
 #define PFLASH_OPTS ""
@@ -2862,7 +2863,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
         if (optind >= argc)
             break;
         if (argv[optind][0] != '-') {
-            hda_opts = drive_add(IF_DEFAULT, 0, argv[optind++], HD_OPTS);
+            hda_opts = drive_add(IF_DEFAULT, 0, argv[optind++], HD_OPTS_RAW);
         } else {
             const QEMUOption *popt;
 
-- 
1.8.4