From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, kwolf@redhat.com
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vmdk: refuse to open higher version than supported
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:19:56 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130624061956.GA13610@t430s.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130613083808.GE2633@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com>
On Thu, 06/13 10:38, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:21:29AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > Refuse to open higher version for safety.
> >
> > Although we try to be compatible with published VMDK spec, VMware has
> > newer version from ESXi 5.1 exported OVF/OVA, which we have no knowledge
> > what's changed in it. And it is very likely to have more new versions in
> > the future, so it's not safe to open them blindly.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > v2: Report error and return -ENOTSUP.
> >
> > ---
> > block/vmdk.c | 9 +++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Is this OK to be applied? Thanks.
--
Fam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-24 6:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-13 3:21 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vmdk: refuse to open higher version than supported Fam Zheng
2013-06-13 8:38 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-06-24 6:19 ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2013-06-24 9:18 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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