[Kimchi-devel] [PATCH] Force qcow2 when creating a VM based on backing image
- When using a backing image as template the target must be a qcow2
image.
Signed-off-by: Jose Ricardo Ziviani <joserz(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
src/kimchi/vmtemplate.py | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/kimchi/vmtemplate.py b/src/kimchi/vmtemplate.py
index 2646573..a165a5d 100644
--- a/src/kimchi/vmtemplate.py
+++ b/src/kimchi/vmtemplate.py
@@ -232,12 +232,18 @@ class VMTemplate(object):
v_tree = E.volume(E.name(info['name']))
v_tree.append(E.allocation(str(info['allocation']),
unit='G'))
v_tree.append(E.capacity(str(info['capacity']), unit='G'))
- target = E.target(
- E.format(type=info['format']), E.path(info['path']))
+
+ target_fmt = info['format']
if 'base' in d:
+ # target must be qcow2 in order to use a backing file
+ target_fmt = 'qcow2'
+
v_tree.append(E.backingStore(
E.path(info['base']['path']),
E.format(type=info['base']['format'])))
+
+ target = E.target(
+ E.format(type=target_fmt), E.path(info['path']))
v_tree.append(target)
info['xml'] = etree.tostring(v_tree)
ret.append(info)
--
1.9.1