On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Anthony Liguori<anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Randy Smith wrote:
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Running `qemu-img create -f raw file.raw 1000` creates a 512 byte file
>> rather than the 1000K file the docs imply.
>>
>> From the help message:
>> "
>> 'size' is the disk image size in kilobytes. Optional suffixes
>> 'M' (megabyte, 1024 * 1024) and 'G' (gigabyte, 1024 * 1024 * 1024) are
>> supported any 'k' or 'K' is ignored
>> "
>>
>> Did the default change or is there bug with the create?
>>
>
> No suffix assumes bytes. It truncates to the nearest sector which is why
> you see a 512 byte file. If you did `qemu-img create -f raw file.raw 1024`
> you would see a file of 1024 bytes.
>
> Not sure if the docs is wrong or this behavior changed. Patch either way
> would be appreciated/accepted.
It looks like the behavior changed. The ubuntu-vm-builder depended on
'size' defaulting to kilobytes and the help message printed when
qemu-img is run claims that it should default to kilobytes.
Here's a patch that updates the help message. It doesn't matter to me
if the behavior changed here but as long as the docs match what's
really happening.
--- qemu-img.c.orig 2009-07-13 15:42:49.000000000 -0600
+++ qemu-img.c 2009-07-13 15:43:11.000000000 -0600
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
" content as the input's base image, however the path,
image format, etc may\n"
" differ\n"
" 'fmt' is the disk image format. It is guessed
automatically in most cases\n"
- " 'size' is the disk image size in kilobytes. Optional suffixes\n"
+ " 'size' is the disk image size in bytes. Optional suffixes\n"
" 'M' (megabyte, 1024 * 1024) and 'G' (gigabyte, 1024 *
1024 * 1024) are\n"
" supported any 'k' or 'K' is ignored\n"
" 'output_filename' is the destination disk image filename\n"
--
Randy Smith
http://www.vuser.org/
http://perlstalker.blogspot.com/
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