[one-users] problem when attachin volatile disks

Madko madko77 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 08:02:22 PST 2014


I will try that. Do you now what is the distinction between FS Format and
Driver ? FS Format is the actual format on the datastore passed to qemu-img
create? And driver is the part that goes in the domain xml?

2014-11-26 16:06 GMT+01:00 Jaime Melis <jmelis at opennebula.systems>:

> You would need:
> - FS format: qcow2
> - Driver: qcow2
> - Device prefix: vd
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Madko <madko77 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I add a new disk to a running instance, I type raw (or anything
>> else) in the FS format, qcow2 in the driver field and choose vd as device
>> prefix.
>>
>> I then have an error that the disk.2 is not a qcow2 format. Qemu-img
>> shows that in fact it's a raw format image that have been created. So I
>> retry with a raw format and then it works. So how do we attach a disk in
>> qcow2 format?
>>
>> Moreover, if I choose read only, I still can write/format this disk in
>> the VM. Is it normal?
>>
>>
>> best regards,
>>
>> --
>> Edouard Bourguignon
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