On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 08:35:46PM +0000, Jianfeng Tang wrote: > > > > I am using backing store when I create my volume. However, the backing > store file is from another team, which can be either in raw or in qcow2 > format. > > Is there a libvirt API to detect image format by given an image file? Or I > have to run qemu-img? Nothing wrong with running `qemu-img info' IMHO. Libguestfs has some disk detection features, including format, backing file, virtual size. And of course it can go a lot deeper into the disk content itself using libguestfs inspection. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
