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Bug 1203595

Summary: No error messages output if append '--format qcow2' after '-a guest.img', guest.img is a raw format image file
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Hu Zhang <huzhan>
Component: libguestfsAssignee: Pino Toscano <ptoscano>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 6.7CC: leiwang, linl, mbooth, ptoscano, rjones, virt-bugs, wshi, xchen
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Clone Of: 1140894 Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-11-08 17:37:35 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Depends On: 1140894    
Bug Blocks: 1301844    

Comment 4 Pino Toscano 2016-11-08 17:37:35 UTC
The fix is not complex, but a big long and possibly invasive at this point.
Also, this is mostly providing more hints/errors for wrong situations, like specifying --format after the disk it should specify the format for. The real "fix" is to just specify the arguments in the right order, which is how things are supposed to work.

For the reasons above, I'm inclined to not fix this bug at this point.