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Bug 864443

Summary: file doesn't recognize qemu vdi vmdk qed images
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Karel Srot <ksrot>
Component: fileAssignee: Jan Kaluža <jkaluza>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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samples of various qemu image formats none

Description Karel Srot 2012-10-09 12:33:38 UTC 
Description of problem:

file doesn't recognize qemu vdi vmdk qed images
file-5.04-13.el6

qemu-disk-images/vdi.img: data
qemu-disk-images/qed.img: data
qemu-disk-images/vmdk.img: data


This has been fixed on RHEL6 in bugs 795425, 795761
Comment 1 Karel Srot 2012-10-09 12:35:12 UTC 
Created attachment 624062 [details]
samples of various qemu image formats
Comment 2 Jan Kaluža 2012-10-10 11:10:59 UTC 
Can be backported, but I'm not sure if it will get into 5.10, we will see.
Comment 3 Jan Kaluža 2013-03-11 08:36:56 UTC 
This won't be fixed in RHEL5, closing it as WONTFIX. There is still clone of this bug for RHEL6, which should be fixed in RHEL6 row.