[virt-tools-list] Is the default of "format" raw? (virt-install)
Peng Yu
pengyu.ut at gmail.com
Thu Mar 13 04:39:25 UTC 2014
Hi,
`man virt-install` says the following. But it is not clear to me what
format is used if it is not specified explicitly. Does anybody know?
Should this be documented?
Also, how to check what the format is of an image file? Thanks.
format
Image format to be used if creating managed storage. For file
volumes, this can be 'raw', 'qcow2', 'vmdk', etc. See format
types in <http://libvirt.org/storage.html> for possible values.
This is often mapped to the driver_type value as well.
With libvirt 0.8.3 and later, this option should be specified if
reusing an existing disk image, since libvirt does not autodetect
storage format as it is a potential security issue. For example,
if reusing an existing qcow2 image, you will want to specify
format=qcow2, otherwise the hypervisor may not be able to read
your disk image.
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Regards,
Peng
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