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| author | Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> | 2019-08-09 11:09:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> | 2019-08-16 10:25:16 +0200 |
| commit | ffd8e8ffd5410ecea17c62785bf445b7ecddd8d6 (patch) | |
| tree | 3670000e635382419fbc7bee20a13c1e71a53d50 /qemu-deprecated.texi | |
| parent | cf3129323f900ef5ddbccbe86e4fa801e88c566e (diff) | |
qemu-img convert: Deprecate using -n and -o together
bdrv_create options specified with -o have no effect when skipping image
creation with -n, so this doesn't make sense. Warn against the misuse
and deprecate the combination so we can make it a hard error later.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-deprecated.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-deprecated.texi | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi index fff07bb2a3..f7680c08e1 100644 --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi @@ -305,6 +305,13 @@ to just export the entire image and then mount only /dev/nbd0p1 than it is to reinvoke @command{qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0} limited to just a subset of the image. +@subsection qemu-img convert -n -o (since 4.2.0) + +All options specified in @option{-o} are image creation options, so +they have no effect when used with @option{-n} to skip image creation. +Silently ignored options can be confusing, so this combination of +options will be made an error in future versions. + @section Build system @subsection Python 2 support (since 4.1.0) |