Bug 1026739 - qcow2: Switch to compat=1.1 default for new images
Summary: qcow2: Switch to compat=1.1 default for new images
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: qemu-kvm
Version: 7.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Kevin Wolf
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Reported: 2013-11-05 10:28 UTC by Kevin Wolf
Modified: 2014-06-18 03:41 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: qemu-kvm-1.5.3-20.el7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 11:31:57 UTC
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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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