Reviewed-by: Daniel Barboza <dhbarboza82(a)gmail.com&gt; On 07/29/2015 01:04 PM, Jose Ricardo Ziviani wrote: > - 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&gt; > --- > 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)