Bug 1026739

Summary:	qcow2: Switch to compat=1.1 default for new images
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Kevin Wolf <kwolf>
Component:	qemu-kvm	Assignee:	Kevin Wolf <kwolf>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version:	7.0	CC:	acathrow, hhuang, juzhang, michen, sluo, virt-maint
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Fixed In Version:	qemu-kvm-1.5.3-20.el7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Kevin Wolf 2013-11-05 10:28:18 UTC

Upstream qemu is using compat=1.1 by default for newly created qcow2 images.
RHEL 7 should do the same in order to make the new features available.

Comment 1 Miroslav Rezanina 2013-11-28 07:36:53 UTC

Fix included in qemu-kvm-1.5.3-20.el7

Comment 3 juzhang 2013-12-13 04:18:56 UTC

Reproduced with qemu-kvm-1.5.3-19.el7.x86_64.

Steps:
1. qemu-img create -f qcow2 test.qcow2 1G
2. qemu-img info test.qcow2 

Result:
Format specific information:
             compat: 0.10

Verified with qemu-kvm-1.5.3-21.el7.x86_64.

Format specific information:
             compat: 1.1

Comment 5 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 11:31:57 UTC

This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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