From: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com> When a vmdk image is created with a backing file, it is opened to check whether it is indeed a vmdk file by letting qemu probe it. When doing so, the backing filename is relative to the image's base directory so it should be interpreted accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> --- block/vmdk.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/vmdk.c b/block/vmdk.c index bfff900..52cb888 100644 --- a/block/vmdk.c +++ b/block/vmdk.c @@ -1891,8 +1891,19 @@ static int vmdk_create(const char *filename, QemuOpts *opts, Error **errp) } if (backing_file) { BlockDriverState *bs = NULL; - ret = bdrv_open(&bs, backing_file, NULL, NULL, BDRV_O_NO_BACKING, NULL, + char *full_backing = g_new0(char, PATH_MAX); + bdrv_get_full_backing_filename_from_filename(filename, backing_file, + full_backing, PATH_MAX, + &local_err); + if (local_err) { + g_free(full_backing); + error_propagate(errp, local_err); + ret = -ENOENT; + goto exit; + } + ret = bdrv_open(&bs, full_backing, NULL, NULL, BDRV_O_NO_BACKING, NULL, errp); + g_free(full_backing); if (ret != 0) { goto exit; } -- 2.1.0