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Author SHA1 Message Date
Sascha Silbe 339f06a3bc qemu-iotests: tests: do not set unused tmp variable
The previous commit removed the last usage of ${tmp} inside the tests
themselves; the only remaining users are sourced by check. So we can now
drop this variable from the tests.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Silbe <silbe@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Bo Tu <tubo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Message-id: 1460472980-26319-4-git-send-email-silbe@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2016-04-15 17:56:56 +02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi 550830f935 block: delete cow block driver
This patch removes support for the cow file format.

Normally we do not break backwards compatibility but in this case there
is no impact and it is the most logical option.  Extraordinary claims
require extraordinary evidence so I will show why removing the cow block
driver is the right thing to do.

The cow file format is the disk image format for Usermode Linux, a way
of running a Linux system in userspace.  The performance of UML was
never great and it was hacky, but it enjoyed some popularity before
hardware virtualization support became mainstream.

QEMU's block/cow.c is supposed to read this image file format.
Unfortunately the file format was underspecified:

1. Earlier Linux versions used the MAXPATHLEN constant for the backing
   filename field.  The value of MAXPATHLEN can change, so Linux
   switched to a 4096 literal but QEMU has a 1024 literal.

2. Padding was not used on the header struct (both in the Linux kernel
   and in QEMU) so the struct layout varied across architectures.  In
   particular, i386 and x86_64 were different due to int64_t alignment
   differences.  Linux now uses __attribute__((packed)), QEMU does not.

Therefore:

1. QEMU cow images do not conform to the Linux cow image file format.

2. cow images cannot be shared between different host architectures.

This means QEMU cow images are useless and QEMU has not had bug reports
from users actually hitting these issues.

Let's get rid of this thing, it serves no purpose and no one will be
affected.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1410877464-20481-1-git-send-email-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-09-22 11:39:45 +01:00
Peter Lieven 1f7bf7d068 qemu-iotests: change _supported_proto to file for various tests
all these tests do anything of the following and thus fail with any
protocol other than file:
 - the tests use rm, cp or mv shell commands which only work on file
 - the tests use qcow2.py
 - the images construct new filenames (e.g. backing file names) and
   the logic is broken for anything else than file

Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2014-02-09 09:12:38 +01:00
Max Reitz 91f84f652d iotests: Test file format nesting
Add a test for nested image formats.

Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2014-01-22 12:07:18 +01:00