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Bug 1033490 - Cannot upgrade/downgrade qcow2 images
Summary: Cannot upgrade/downgrade qcow2 images
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
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Hanna Czenczek
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-11-22 08:43 UTC by Kevin Wolf
Modified: 2014-06-18 03:42 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: qemu-kvm-1.5.3-35.el7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-06-13 10:54:45 UTC
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Description Kevin Wolf 2013-11-22 08:43:58 UTC 
Description of problem:
The RHEL 7 qemu implements a newer version of the qcow2 image file format,
which enables new features, but cannot be read by older qemu versions. For new
images, the version can be specified using the 'qemu-img create -o
compat=(0.10|1.1)' option. Bug 1026739 requests to make compat=1.1 the default
for new images.

Upstream qemu allows to upgrade existing images to make use of the new features
and downgrade images to make them usable with older qemu versions (such as the
one of RHEL 6).

This does not work in RHEL 7.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qemu-kvm-1.5.3-19.el7

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:

A.1 qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o compat=0.10 /tmp/test.qcow2 1G
A.2 qemu-img amend -f qcow2 -o compat=1.1 /tmp/test.qcow2
A.3 qemu-img info /tmp/test.qcow2

B.1 qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o compat=1.1 /tmp/test.qcow2 1G
B.2 qemu-img amend -f qcow2 -o compat=0.10 /tmp/test.qcow2
B.3 qemu-img info /tmp/test.qcow2


Actual results:
Step 2 in each case prints the qemu-img help message.

Expected results:
All commands succeed. In A.3, "compat: 1.1" is printed. In B.3, "compat: 0.10"
is printed.
Comment 1 Miroslav Rezanina 2014-01-09 09:41:41 UTC 
Fix included in qemu-kvm-1.5.3-35.el7
Comment 3 Qian Guo 2014-01-21 07:11:53 UTC 
Reproduced this bug with qemu-kvm-1.5.3-19.el7.x86_64 & qemu-img-1.5.3-19.el7.x86_64

Steps:
A.
1.#qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o compat=0.10 /tmp/test.qcow2 1G
2.check help of qemu-img
# qemu-img --help |grep amend
# 
* there's no help infos about amend

3.#qemu-img amend -f qcow2 -o compat=1.1 /tmp/test.qcow2
* this command can not be executed, just output the help infos of qemu-img

B.
1.# qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o compat=1.1 /tmp/test.qcow2 1G
2.# qemu-img amend -f qcow2 -o compat=0.10 /tmp/test.qcow2
* this command can not be executed, just output the help infos of qemu-img

So this bug is reproduced by qemu-kvm-1.5.3-19.el7.x86_64 & qemu-img-1.5.3-19.el7.x86_64

Verify this bug with qemu-kvm-1.5.3-37.el7.x86_64 & qemu-img-1.5.3-37.el7.x86_64

Steps:
A.
1.# qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o compat=0.10 /tmp/test.qcow2 1G
Formatting '/tmp/test.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 size=1073741824 compat='0.10' encryption=off cluster_size=65536 lazy_refcounts=off

2.check help of qemu-img
# qemu-img --help |grep amend
  amend [-q] [-f fmt] -o options filename

3.# qemu-img amend -f qcow2 -o compat=1.1 /tmp/test.qcow2
* command can be finished successfully

4.# qemu-img info /tmp/test.qcow2 
image: /tmp/test.qcow2
file format: qcow2
virtual size: 1.0G (1073741824 bytes)
disk size: 196K
cluster_size: 65536
Format specific information:
    compat: 1.1
    lazy refcounts: false

So the compat is successfully upgrated to 1.1

B
1.# qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o compat=1.1 /tmp/test.qcow2 1G
Formatting '/tmp/test.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 size=1073741824 compat='1.1' encryption=off cluster_size=65536 lazy_refcounts=off

2.# qemu-img amend -f qcow2 -o compat=0.10 /tmp/test.qcow2

3.# qemu-img info /tmp/test.qcow2 
image: /tmp/test.qcow2
file format: qcow2
virtual size: 1.0G (1073741824 bytes)
disk size: 196K
cluster_size: 65536
Format specific information:
    compat: 0.10
So the compat is successfully downgrade to 0.10

So according to above, this bug has been fixed.
Comment 5 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 10:54:45 UTC 
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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