Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 830057
man doc of vol-create-as format is lack of qed and vmdk
Last modified: 2013-09-08 20:03:37 EDT
Description of problem: vol-create-as format is lack of qed Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libvirt-0.9.10-21.el6.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: # man virsh vol-create-as pool-or-uuid name capacity [--allocation size] [--format string] [--backing-vol vol-name-or-key-or-path] [--backing-vol-format string] Create a volume from a set of arguments. pool-or-uuid is the name or UUID of the storage pool to create the volume in. name is the name of the new volume. capacity is the size of the volume to be created, as a scaled integer (see NOTES above), defaulting to bytes if there is no suffix. --allocation size is the initial size to be allocated in the volume, also as a scaled integer defaulting to bytes. --format string is used in file based storage pools to specify the volume file format to use; raw, bochs, qcow, qcow2, ----> need add vmdk and qed vmdk. --backing-vol vol-name-or-key-or-path is the source backing volume to be used if taking a snapshot of an existing volume. --backing-vol-format string is the format of the snapshot backing volume; raw, bochs, qcow, qcow2, vmdk, host_device. ------> need add qed Actual results: vol-create-as format is lack of qed and vmdk Expected results: Add qed and vmdk Additional info:
Patch proposed upstream: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-June/msg00718.html
Moving to POST: commit 2872155bfe8e95334116e216f369539d1ec5c7cb Author: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> AuthorDate: Mon Jun 18 13:20:01 2012 +0200 Commit: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> CommitDate: Mon Jun 18 14:40:32 2012 +0200 virsh: Update vol-create-as manpage as we support qed format as well.
verify with: libvirt-0.9.13-3.el6.x86_64 step: 1: #man virsh .......- -format string is used in file based storage pools to specify the volume file format to use; raw, bochs, qcow, qcow2, vmdk, qed. ....... --backing-vol-format string is the format of the snapshot backing volume; raw, bochs, qcow, qcow2, qed, vmdk, host_device. qed and vmdk format added. verification passed.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0276.html