From: Alberto Garcia <be...@igalia.com> This addresses scenarios like this one:
{ 'execute': 'blockdev-add', 'arguments': { 'options': { 'driver': 'qcow2', 'node-name': 'new0', 'file': { 'driver': 'file', 'filename': 'new.qcow2', 'node-name': 'file0' } } } } { 'execute': 'blockdev-snapshot', 'arguments': { 'node': 'virtio0', 'overlay': 'file0' } } Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <be...@igalia.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> --- blockdev.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/blockdev.c b/blockdev.c index 2bf18a7..8749d78 100644 --- a/blockdev.c +++ b/blockdev.c @@ -1668,6 +1668,11 @@ static void external_snapshot_prepare(BlkTransactionState *common, if (state->new_bs->backing != NULL) { error_setg(errp, "The snapshot already has a backing image"); + return; + } + + if (!state->new_bs->drv->supports_backing) { + error_setg(errp, "The snapshot does not support backing images"); } } -- 1.8.3.1