Hello
I've made virtual guest on Fedora 20 (x86_64) within qcow2 image file but after migration to CentOS 6.5 I've got this error:
qemu-kvm: -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/questfile.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2: 'drive-virtio-disk0' uses a qcow2 feature which is not supported by this qemu version: QCOW version 3
similar error I've got for qemu-img: # qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/questfile.qcow2 'image' uses a qcow2 feature which is not supported by this qemu version: QCOW version 3
On F20 it returns: # qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/questfile.qcow2 image: /var/lib/libvirt/images/rhel6.qcow2 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 32G (34359738368 bytes) disk size: 4.7G cluster_size: 65536
Have I missed something? Is it qcow2 on Fedora different from CentOS6? Is there any possibility (on Fedora 20) to convert it to backward compatible format?
Pavel
Am 14.04.2014 um 12:33 hat Pavel Lisý geschrieben:
Hello
I've made virtual guest on Fedora 20 (x86_64) within qcow2 image file but after migration to CentOS 6.5 I've got this error:
qemu-kvm: -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/questfile.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2: 'drive-virtio-disk0' uses a qcow2 feature which is not supported by this qemu version: QCOW version 3
similar error I've got for qemu-img: # qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/questfile.qcow2 'image' uses a qcow2 feature which is not supported by this qemu version: QCOW version 3
On F20 it returns: # qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/questfile.qcow2 image: /var/lib/libvirt/images/rhel6.qcow2 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 32G (34359738368 bytes) disk size: 4.7G cluster_size: 65536
Have I missed something?
Is it qcow2 on Fedora different from CentOS6? Is there any possibility (on Fedora 20) to convert it to backward compatible format?
qemu versions starting with 1.1 can use new qcow2 features which require an incompatible on-disk format. Between version 1.1 and 1.6, they needed to be specified explicitly during image creation, like this:
qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o compat=1.1 test.qcow2 8G
Starting with qemu 1.7, compat=1.1 became the default, so that newly created images can't be read by older qemu versions by default. If you need to read them in older version, you now need to be explicit about using the old format:
qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o compat=0.10 test.qcow2 8G
With the same release, qemu 1.7, a new qemu-img subcommand was introduced that allows converting between both versions, so you can downgrade your existing v3 image to the format known by RHEL 6 like this:
qemu-img amend -f qcow2 -o compat=0.10 test.qcow2
However, it looked to me as if F20 still had qemu 1.6, so you shouldn't be seeing any of this, and your qemu-img may not have the 'amend' subcommand. Maybe one of the package maintainers can comment on any patches that F20 has on top of 1.6?
Kevin
Kevin Wolf píše v Po 14. 04. 2014 v 12:52 +0200:
Am 14.04.2014 um 12:33 hat Pavel Lisý geschrieben:
Hello
I've made virtual guest on Fedora 20 (x86_64) within qcow2 image file but after migration to CentOS 6.5 I've got this error:
qemu-kvm: -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/questfile.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2: 'drive-virtio-disk0' uses a qcow2 feature which is not supported by this qemu version: QCOW version 3
similar error I've got for qemu-img: # qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/questfile.qcow2 'image' uses a qcow2 feature which is not supported by this qemu version: QCOW version 3
On F20 it returns: # qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/questfile.qcow2 image: /var/lib/libvirt/images/rhel6.qcow2 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 32G (34359738368 bytes) disk size: 4.7G cluster_size: 65536
Have I missed something?
Is it qcow2 on Fedora different from CentOS6? Is there any possibility (on Fedora 20) to convert it to backward compatible format?
qemu versions starting with 1.1 can use new qcow2 features which require an incompatible on-disk format. Between version 1.1 and 1.6, they needed to be specified explicitly during image creation, like this:
qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o compat=1.1 test.qcow2 8GStarting with qemu 1.7, compat=1.1 became the default, so that newly created images can't be read by older qemu versions by default. If you need to read them in older version, you now need to be explicit about using the old format:
qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o compat=0.10 test.qcow2 8GWith the same release, qemu 1.7, a new qemu-img subcommand was introduced that allows converting between both versions, so you can downgrade your existing v3 image to the format known by RHEL 6 like this:
qemu-img amend -f qcow2 -o compat=0.10 test.qcow2However, it looked to me as if F20 still had qemu 1.6, so you shouldn't be seeing any of this, and your qemu-img may not have the 'amend' subcommand. Maybe one of the package maintainers can comment on any patches that F20 has on top of 1.6?
you are right, there is no such option
in meantime I've found example on ubuntu forum and then in man page
qemu-img convert -p -f qcow2 -O qcow2 -o compat=0.10 \ fedora20-guest.qcow2 centos6-guest.qcow2
I think for CentOS/RHEL6 compat=0.10 is necessary, there are qemu-kvm-0.12 qemu-img-0.12 only
It works now, thanks
Pavel
On 04/14/2014 06:52 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 14.04.2014 um 12:33 hat Pavel Lisý geschrieben:
Hello
I've made virtual guest on Fedora 20 (x86_64) within qcow2 image file but after migration to CentOS 6.5 I've got this error:
qemu-kvm: -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/questfile.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2: 'drive-virtio-disk0' uses a qcow2 feature which is not supported by this qemu version: QCOW version 3
similar error I've got for qemu-img: # qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/questfile.qcow2 'image' uses a qcow2 feature which is not supported by this qemu version: QCOW version 3
On F20 it returns: # qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/questfile.qcow2 image: /var/lib/libvirt/images/rhel6.qcow2 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 32G (34359738368 bytes) disk size: 4.7G cluster_size: 65536
Have I missed something?
Is it qcow2 on Fedora different from CentOS6? Is there any possibility (on Fedora 20) to convert it to backward compatible format?
qemu versions starting with 1.1 can use new qcow2 features which require an incompatible on-disk format. Between version 1.1 and 1.6, they needed to be specified explicitly during image creation, like this:
qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o compat=1.1 test.qcow2 8GStarting with qemu 1.7, compat=1.1 became the default, so that newly created images can't be read by older qemu versions by default. If you need to read them in older version, you now need to be explicit about using the old format:
qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o compat=0.10 test.qcow2 8GWith the same release, qemu 1.7, a new qemu-img subcommand was introduced that allows converting between both versions, so you can downgrade your existing v3 image to the format known by RHEL 6 like this:
qemu-img amend -f qcow2 -o compat=0.10 test.qcow2However, it looked to me as if F20 still had qemu 1.6, so you shouldn't be seeing any of this, and your qemu-img may not have the 'amend' subcommand. Maybe one of the package maintainers can comment on any patches that F20 has on top of 1.6?
virt-manager in f20 uses compat=1.1 by default for new qcow2 images. Unfortunately we didn't add any UI to change that setting, so you'll have to create the qcow2 images by hand behind virt-manager's back.
The other option is grab a newer qemu from fedora-virt-preview so you can use the qemu-img amend command:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository
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