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Bug 1007176 - Add VPC and VHDX file formats as supported in qemu-kvm (read-only)
Summary: Add VPC and VHDX file formats as supported in qemu-kvm (read-only)
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: qemu-kvm
Version: 7.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Jeff Cody
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 1006662 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 961854 977441 1006159
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-09-12 04:48 UTC by Sibiao Luo
Modified: 2014-06-18 03:36 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version: qemu-kvm-1.5.3-15.el7
Doc Type: Release Note
Doc Text:
VPC and VHDX File Formats KVM in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta includes support for the Microsoft Virtual PC (VPC) and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual hard disk (VHDX) file formats.
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-06-13 10:02:41 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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Description Sibiao Luo 2013-09-12 04:48:58 UTC 
Description of problem:
fail to boot guest with vpc file format disk in qemu-kvm. we has fixed this issue in rhel6.5(bug 999779), so we need to backport the code to rhel7 also.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
host info:
# uname -r && rpm -q qemu-kvm
3.10.0-18.el7.x86_64
qemu-kvm-1.5.3-2.el7.x86_64
guest info:
3.10.0-18.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a vpc file format disk.
# qemu-img create -f vpc sluo-data-disk.vpc 10G
Formatting 'sluo-data-disk.vpc', fmt=vpc size=10737418240 
# qemu-img info sluo-data-disk.vpc
image: sluo-data-disk.vpc
file format: vpc
virtual size: 10G (10737893376 bytes)
disk size: 24K
2.boot guest with vpc format file in KVM.
e.g:...-drive file=/home/sluo-data-disk.vpc,if=none,format=vpc,id=drive-data-disk,werror=stop,rerror=stop,*readonly=on* -device virtio-scsi-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7,id=scsi0 -device scsi-hd,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk,bus=scsi0.0

Actual results:
after step 2, qemu will quit with prompt that 'vpc' invalid format, like:
Warning: option deprecated, use lost_tick_policy property of kvm-pit instead.
qemu-kvm: -drive file=/home/sluo-data-disk.vpc,if=none,format=vpc,id=drive-data-disk,werror=stop,rerror=stop,readonly=on: 'vpc' invalid format
/etc/qemu-ifdown: could not launch network script

Expected results:
Qemu should support the vpc file format.

Additional info:
# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -drive format=?
Supported formats: vvfat vpc vmdk vhdx vdi sheepdog sheepdog sheepdog raw host_cdrom host_floppy host_device file qed qcow2 qcow parallels nbd nbd nbd iscsi gluster gluster gluster gluster dmg cow cloop bochs blkverify blkdebug
Comment 1 Jeff Cody 2013-09-13 19:25:57 UTC 
vpc needs to be added to the rpm spec template drive r/o whitelist
Comment 2 Ademar Reis 2013-11-05 19:41:35 UTC 
(In reply to Jeff Cody from comment #1)
> vpc needs to be added to the rpm spec template drive r/o whitelist

And so does VHDX (until read/write support is added)
Comment 3 Jeff Cody 2013-11-06 15:33:58 UTC 
*** Bug 879234 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Jeff Cody 2013-11-06 19:41:41 UTC 
*** Bug 1006662 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Miroslav Rezanina 2013-11-07 08:26:23 UTC 
Fix included in qemu-kvm-1.5.3-15.el7
Comment 7 Sibiao Luo 2013-11-18 03:34:37 UTC 
Verify this issue on qemu-kvm-1.5.3-19.el7.x86_64 that with VPC and VHDX format disk, it can boot up with vpc/vhdx format disk specified readonly=on, so this issue has been fixed correctly.

host info:
# uname -r && rpm -q qemu-kvm
3.10.0-41.el7.x86_64
qemu-kvm-1.5.3-19.el7.x86_64

Best regards,
sluo
Comment 8 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 10:02:41 UTC 
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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