Hi, Am 18.05.2018 um 17:30 schrieb Michael S. Tsirkin: > Unfortunately this means that it's no longer possible > to more or less reliably boot a VM just given a disk image, > even if you select the correct QEMU binary: ... > Would it be reasonable to support storing this information in the qcow > image itself? For example, I can see it following immediately the > backing file path within the image.
- This looks like a layering violation - what happens when you have multiple (conflicting) images like a VM with 2 image files? Philipp PS: this is even more an issue for restoring snapshots as you the must launch a new QEMU process with the exact layout of the saving QEMU process - otherwise LoadVM will just fail. PPS: I'm afraid of someone suggesting such an abomination as those self extracting archives using shell scripts at the beginning and an compressed archive BLOB at the end of the same file.
