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Bug 953108

Summary: qemu-img man page still mentions host_device
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Kevin Wolf <kwolf>
Component: qemu-kvmAssignee: Kevin Wolf <kwolf>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.5CC: acathrow, areis, bsarathy, juzhang, lersek, lnovich, mkenneth, qzhang, shu, virt-maint
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.367.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-11-21 06:53:12 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Kevin Wolf 2013-04-17 11:43:32 UTC 
Ever since RHEL 6.0 you're not supposed to directly use 'host_device' as a
format any more. Simply using 'raw' does the expected thing. The man page still
mentions that it should be used for conversion targets. This should be removed.
Comment 7 Shaolong Hu 2013-06-24 06:14:58 UTC 
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.356.el6.x86_64：

man qemu-img :

       host_device
           Host device format. This format should be used instead of raw when converting to block devices or other devices where
           "holes" are not supported.


qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.376.el6.x86_64:

man qemu-img :

"host_device" part has gone.
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-21 06:53:12 UTC 
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-2013-1553.html