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authorJeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>2014-12-08 01:07:44 -0500
committerStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2014-12-12 15:42:49 +0000
commit30af51ce7f4aebb37359367c65b7405451e70702 (patch)
treecbaaf5c2ae2e3f541bed8354bc5bd8075ef23ec7 /block/vhdx.c
parenta9d1e9daa5527101c0b2dcf1a57aab549075144a (diff)
downloadqemu-30af51ce7f4aebb37359367c65b7405451e70702.tar.gz
block: vhdx - change .vhdx_create default block state to ZERO
The VHDX spec specifies that the default new block state is PAYLOAD_BLOCK_NOT_PRESENT for a dynamic VHDX image, and PAYLOAD_BLOCK_FULLY_PRESENT for a fixed VHDX image. However, in order to create space-efficient VHDX images with qemu-img convert, it is desirable to be able to set has_zero_init to true for VHDX. There is currently an option when creating VHDX images, to use block state ZERO for new blocks. However, this currently defaults to 'off'. In order to be able to eventually set has_zero_init to true for VHDX, this needs to default to 'on'. This patch changes the default to 'on', and provides some help information to warn against setting it to 'off' when using qemu-img convert. [Max Reitz pointed out that a full stop was missing at the end of the VHDX_BLOCK_OPT_ZERO option help text. I have added it. --Stefan] Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Message-id: 85164899eacc86e150c3ceba793cf93b398dedd7.1418018421.git.jcody@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/vhdx.c')
-rw-r--r--block/vhdx.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/block/vhdx.c b/block/vhdx.c
index bec10bd09c..46d504c96c 100644
--- a/block/vhdx.c
+++ b/block/vhdx.c
@@ -1774,7 +1774,7 @@ static int vhdx_create(const char *filename, QemuOpts *opts, Error **errp)
log_size = qemu_opt_get_size_del(opts, VHDX_BLOCK_OPT_LOG_SIZE, 0);
block_size = qemu_opt_get_size_del(opts, VHDX_BLOCK_OPT_BLOCK_SIZE, 0);
type = qemu_opt_get_del(opts, BLOCK_OPT_SUBFMT);
- use_zero_blocks = qemu_opt_get_bool_del(opts, VHDX_BLOCK_OPT_ZERO, false);
+ use_zero_blocks = qemu_opt_get_bool_del(opts, VHDX_BLOCK_OPT_ZERO, true);
if (image_size > VHDX_MAX_IMAGE_SIZE) {
error_setg_errno(errp, EINVAL, "Image size too large; max of 64TB");
@@ -1936,7 +1936,9 @@ static QemuOptsList vhdx_create_opts = {
{
.name = VHDX_BLOCK_OPT_ZERO,
.type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
- .help = "Force use of payload blocks of type 'ZERO'. Non-standard."
+ .help = "Force use of payload blocks of type 'ZERO'. "\
+ "Non-standard, but default. Do not set to 'off' when "\
+ "using 'qemu-img convert' with subformat=dynamic."
},
{ NULL }
}