Trying to create a new base image by merging a previous base and copy on write image. The resulting qcow2 image appears to be an empty, unformatted image. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. kvm-img convert winxp-clone1.qcow2 -O qcow2 winxp-master2.qcow2 Actual Results: Resulting image file seems to be the right size but fails to boot. XP guest displays the following errors: Booting from Hard Disk... Boot failed: not a bootable disk FATAL: No bootable device. Booting a good XP image file with the newly created image as a secondary drive and looking at that drive in Disk Manager shows it to be an unknown, uninitialized drive (see attachment). Expected Results: I should be able to use the kvm-img convert command to "rebase" my base image with the copy on write image created from it. The resulting image should be a merged version of those two images. I booted into Fedora 11 and used it's qemu-img (version 0.10.6) with the same options and image files and it successfully merged the two images creating a new image that I could boot.
Created attachment 204930 [details] Disk Manager screen shot "Disk 1" is the newly created qcow2 image.
please test app-emulation/qemu-kvm
qemu-kvm-88-r2 appears to still have the problem. qemu-kvm-0.11.0 is wanting to pull in ~amd64 dependencies so I don't want to upgrade yet but I will boot into my unstable branch install in the next few days, upgrade to qemu-kvm-0.11.0 and test that version. I'll also test 88-r2 further to verify it's not working and post the results of both tests after-wards.
Fixed in qemu-kvm-0.11.0. I was able to successfully rebase a copy on write image. Not fixed in qemu-kvm-88-r2 however. fyi, in qemu-kvm-0.11.0, the /etc/qemu-ifup script has been replaced with a minimal script that doesn't work the same as the previous script. qemu-ifdown is missing altogether. Also, by default qemu is looking for the scripts in /etc, not /etc/qemu. The old scripts still work perfectly with no modifications other than renaming them to qemu-ifup and qemu-ifdown. If one hasn't been opened already I'll be happy to open another bug report, just let me know.
