The --image-opts flag can only be used to affect the parsing of the source image. The target image has to be specified in the traditional style regardless, since it needs to be passed to the brdv_create() API which does not support the new style opts.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> --- qemu-img.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/qemu-img.c b/qemu-img.c index 391a141..629f9e9 100644 --- a/qemu-img.c +++ b/qemu-img.c @@ -4098,8 +4098,13 @@ static int img_dd(int argc, char **argv) goto out; } - blk2 = img_open(image_opts, out.filename, out_fmt, BDRV_O_RDWR, - false, false); + /* TODO, we can't honour --image-opts for the target, + * since it needs to be given in a format compatible + * with the bdrv_create() call above which does not + * support image-opts style. + */ + blk2 = img_open_file(out.filename, out_fmt, BDRV_O_RDWR, + false, false); if (!blk2) { ret = -1; -- 2.9.3