On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 19:22:49 +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 18:42:00 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > On 22/02/21 15:57, Markus Armbruster wrote: > > > * The block layer's pseudo-protocol "json:" (which can get embedded in > > > image headers) > > > > If it gets embedded in image headers, I don't think we'll be able to > > deprecate it ever. We'd need to keep a converter for old images, at which > > point it's simpler to keep the extensions. > > The converter or better 'fixer' actually doesn't need to be able to > interpret the old string, just accept a new. IOW it's more of a > documentation problem, because qemu-img can already do that since it's > able to write invalid JSON without interpreting it: [...] I forgot to add that such strings would be user-originated in the first place. The qemu-generated one are (presumably) correct JSON.
