[libvirt] [PATCH 1/3] storage: remove support for /usr/bin/qcow-create

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Apr 20 12:46:59 UTC 2016


On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 05:21:26PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> qcow-create was a crippled qemu-img impl that shipped with xen. I

Actually qcow2-create was a complete fresh impl of a qcow *v1* image
creation tool, that has no code in common with qemu-img !

> think supporting this was only relevant for really old distros
> that didn't have a proper qemu package, like early RHEL5. I think
> it's fair to drop support

Yep, any modern deployment of Xen will just use qemu-img these days

> ---
>  src/storage/storage_backend.c    | 68 ----------------------------------------
>  src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c |  2 +-
>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 69 deletions(-)

ACK

Regards,
Daniel
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