[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] qemu-img: Don't allow preallocation and compression at the same time

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Only qcow and qcow2 can do compression at all, and they require unallocated
clusters when writing the compressed data.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
---
 qemu-img.c |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qemu-img.c b/qemu-img.c
index 6a39731..511f136 100644
--- a/qemu-img.c
+++ b/qemu-img.c
@@ -824,6 +824,8 @@ static int img_convert(int argc, char **argv)
     if (compress) {
         QEMUOptionParameter *encryption =
             get_option_parameter(param, BLOCK_OPT_ENCRYPT);
+        QEMUOptionParameter *preallocation =
+            get_option_parameter(param, BLOCK_OPT_PREALLOC);
 
         if (!drv->bdrv_write_compressed) {
             error_report("Compression not supported for this file format");
@@ -837,6 +839,13 @@ static int img_convert(int argc, char **argv)
             ret = -1;
             goto out;
         }
+
+        if (preallocation && strcmp(preallocation->value.s, "off")) {
+            error_report("Compression and preallocation not supported at "
+                         "the same time");
+            ret = -1;
+            goto out;
+        }
     }
 
     /* Create the new image */
-- 
1.7.6.4