[virt-tools-list] Start encrypted Image with virt-manager

Matthias Walther m_walt11 at wwu.de
Wed Sep 9 09:33:29 UTC 2015


Dear Daniel,

thanks for your quick reply. What's the alternative? 

I thought maybe using standard encryption within the virtual machine might be slow. What's the best practice?

Bye 
Matthias

Am 9. September 2015 11:30:49 MESZ, schrieb "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>:
>On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 11:14:27AM +0200, Matthias Peter Walther wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I subscribed today, because I googled my problem and couldn't find a
>> solution. Maybe you know how to do this:
>> 
>> I encrypted an image of mine with the option: -o encryption
>
>Please don't do that, encryption support in QCow2 is going to be
>deleted
>in QEMU real soon as it is broken by design
>
>https://www.berrange.com/posts/2015/03/17/qemu-qcow2-built-in-encryption-just-say-no-deprecated-now-to-be-deleted-soon/
>
>Regards,
>Daniel
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