[fedora-virt] qcow2, raw, COW

Gene Czarcinski gczarcinski at gmail.com
Sun Jul 20 17:42:53 UTC 2014


On 07/20/2014 11:25 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> On 07/20/2014 11:09 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
>> 2. I want the default disk image format to be raw rather than qcow2.
> Hi Gene,
>
> There's an option in virt-manager for that.  Go to Edit --> Preferences
> :  you'll see it on the "New VM' tab.
>
>
Thank you.

I must have known this at one time because the system where it was 
working had that set.

However, that does not explain why virtsh pool-edit default ignored the 
addition of <format type='raw'>

The documentation says this is something that has been around for a while.

Gene


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