Bug#977721: Opening a block device as a file using the 'file' driver is deprecated

2020-12-26 Thread Michael Tokarev
Marc, are you using spice and audio, and have no qemu-user-gui package installed? If yes, please try the same qemu usage but with qemu-user-gui package installed, -- it might be #977301 and the prob is due to qemu segfaulting due to unexpectedly missing audio backend. Thanks, /mjt

Bug#977721: Opening a block device as a file using the 'file' driver is deprecated

2020-12-25 Thread Michael Tokarev
Control: tag -1 + unreproducible 25.12.2020 18:20, Marc Haber wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 06:09:33PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: Note also this is just a warning, qemu is definitely not giving up, it just says this way to open a device WILL not work in some future, but it does work now.

Bug#977721: Opening a block device as a file using the 'file' driver is deprecated

2020-12-25 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 06:09:33PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Note also this is just a warning, qemu is definitely not giving up, it > just says this way to open a device WILL not work in some future, but it > does work now. And indeed it continues to work fine. So it looks like > you missed

Bug#977721: Opening a block device as a file using the 'file' driver is deprecated

2020-12-25 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 06:00:23PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Marc, what do you want we to do? The optimum would be saying what to do if this message is printed. Surely there is a new way to open a block device. If that one is not yet supported by libvirt, libvirt (upstream?) should work on

Bug#977721: Opening a block device as a file using the 'file' driver is deprecated

2020-12-19 Thread Michael Tokarev
Control: tag -1 + moreinfo 19.12.2020 18:00, Michael Tokarev wrote: 19.12.2020 17:55, Marc Haber wrote:       This VM won't start any more with qemu 5.2, saying "Opening a block device as a file using the file drive is deprecated". It unfortunately Note also this is just a

Bug#977721: Opening a block device as a file using the 'file' driver is deprecated

2020-12-19 Thread Michael Tokarev
19.12.2020 17:55, Marc Haber пишет: Package: qemu-system-x86 Version: 1:5.2+dfsg-2 Severity: important I have my VM images on individually encrypted LVs so that I can individually lock and unlock VMs. This is what my block device looks like: [1/5386]mh@drop:~ $ ls -al /dev/mapper/centos

Bug#977721: Opening a block device as a file using the 'file' driver is deprecated

2020-12-19 Thread Marc Haber
Package: qemu-system-x86 Version: 1:5.2+dfsg-2 Severity: important I have my VM images on individually encrypted LVs so that I can individually lock and unlock VMs. This is what my block device looks like: [1/5386]mh@drop:~ $ ls -al /dev/mapper/centos lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Dez 19 15:47