If backing file doesn't exist, the error message is confusing and
misleading:
$ qemu /tmp/a.qcow2
qemu: could not open disk image /tmp/a.qcow2: Could not open file: No
such file or directory
But...
$ ls /tmp/a.qcow2
/tmp/a.qcow2
$ qemu-img info /tmp/a.qcow2
image: /tmp/a.qcow2
file format: qcow2
virtual size: 8.0G (8589934592 bytes)
disk size: 196K
cluster_size: 65536
backing file: /tmp/b.qcow2
Because...
$ ls /tmp/b.qcow2
ls: cannot access /tmp/b.qcow2: No such file or directory
This is not intuitive. It's better to have the missing file's name in
the error message. With this patch:
$ qemu-io -c 'read 0 512' /tmp/a.qcow2
qemu-io: can't open device /tmp/a.qcow2: Could not open backing
file: Could not open '/stor/vm/arch.raw': No such file or directory
no file open, try 'help open'
Which is a little bit better.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Add a test case for trying to open an image file where it is impossible
to open its backing file (in this case, because it was deleted). When
doing this, qemu (or qemu-io in this case) should not crash but rather
print an appropriate error message.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Fam Zheng
Max Reitz