Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] iotests: Disable 126 for some vmdk subformats

[Eric Blake]

On 7/25/19 10:57 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
> Several vmdk subformats do not work with iotest 126, so disable them.
> 
> (twoGbMaxExtentSparse actually should work, but fixing that is a bit
> difficult.  The problem is that the vmdk descriptor file will contain a
> referenc to "image:base.vmdk", which the block layer cannot open because

reference

> it does not know the protocol "image".  This is not trivial to solve,
> because I suppose real protocols like "http://"; should be supported.
> Making vmdk treat all paths with a potential protocol prefix that the
> block layer does not recognize as plain files seems a bit weird,
> though.  Ignoring this problem does not seem too bad.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>
> ---
>  tests/qemu-iotests/126 | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Are you aiming to get any of this series in -rc3, or is it firmly 4.2
material?

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