Re: Is this a bug in qemu-img?

Charles Duffy
2008-11-24T18:08:06Z

walt wrote:
> Any chance that 'commit' could be added to raw as
> well as qcow2?

Raw images by their nature can't contain metadata -- they have only the
exact contents of the virtual drive, which is what makes them "raw" --
so they by definition can't support copy-on-write (and thus commit) or
other functionality requiring metadata.