[Libguestfs] libguest-test-tool error report

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 01:50:49AM +0000, Mark Husted (hustedm) wrote:
> qemu-kvm: -drive file=centos6.4-x86_64-gold-master-5G.img,cache=none,id=hd1,if=none: 'hd1' uses a qcow2 feature which is not supported by this qemu version: QCOW version 3
> qemu-kvm: -drive file=centos6.4-x86_64-gold-master-5G.img,cache=none,id=hd1,if=none: could not open disk image centos6.4-x86_64-gold-master-5G.img: Operation not supported

The problem is that the disk image uses qcow2 features which were
added in RHEL 7.  RHEL 6 is simply unable to read or process this disk
image.

The only solution here is to update the host to RHEL 7 / CentOS 7.

Rich.

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