Re: Is this a bug in qemu-img?

Avi Kivity
2008-11-23T08:50:09Z

walt wrote:
> I do a fresh install of Windows vista on qcow2 which works
> perfectly. Thereafter I use that image as a backing file
> to make all kinds of updates to Vista, and all that works
> perfectly too.
>
> Then I use 'qemu-img commit' to commit all the changes I've
> made to Vista. The problem is that the updated base image
> doesn't work quite right if I try to run Vista from it --
> there are minor malfunctions which indicate that the commit
> was incomplete or maybe just wrong.

What's your sequence of commands? Are you using -snapshot?

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