Description of problem: I have a mixed cluster in RHEV 3.4: with one RHEL 7.0 host and one RHEL 6.5 host. After dealing with some VM disks, the VMs can't start on RHEL 6.5 host anymore because the disk images were upgraded to incompatible version: 2014-11-28T13:53:40.199311Z qemu-kvm: -drive <options>: 'drive-virtio-disk0' uses a qcow2 feature which is not supported by this qemu version: QCOW version 3 RHEV should instruct RHEL 7 hosts not to use such features unless some RHEL 7-only cluster level is chosen (not available yet) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.4.3: RHEV-M: rhevm-backend-3.4.3-1.2.el6ev.noarch el6 host: vdsm-4.14.17-2.el6ev.x86_64 libvirt-0.10.2-46.el6.x86_64 qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.445.el6.x86_64 el7 host: vdsm-4.14.17-1.el7.x86_64 libvirt-1.1.1-29.el7_0.3.x86_64 qemu-kvm-rhev-1.5.3-60.el7_0.10.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a new VM disk using rhel7 SPM host 2. try to start the VM on rhel6 host 3. Actual results: VM can't start with error above Expected results: VMs are backwards-compatible Additional info:
This has been solved in 3.4.4 - see bug 1139707. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1139707 ***