[PATCH 5/5] qemu: blockcopy: Allow late opening of the backing chain of a shallow copy

[Peter Krempa]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 14:15:25 +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 14:05:54 +0100, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 01:08:47PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 11:09:40 -0500, Eric Blake wrote:

[...]

> > > I'm not sure about the value of exposing this particular situation since
> > > it's a regression of behaviour which is being rectified. The code
> > > driving it in oVirt will stay the same and the only thing that could be
> > > changed is the error message reported. oVirt probably wants just
> > > blacklist the 3 releases that are broken.
> > 
> > Just for the record, can you please note the three affected libvirt
> > releases?  (It'll help us refer to your response when answering
> > users/admins at a future time.)
> 
> It affects libvirt-5.10, libvirt-6.0 and libvirt-6.1.
> 
> > 
> > Also should this be documented elsewhere?
> 
> I can add a news.xml entry

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2020-March/msg00496.html