From 489a665a4715baa15fe77206030ab516f41ef961 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 10:03:00 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] RHEL 7: All qemu-kvm in RHEL 7 supports discard of qcow2 (RHBZ#1225467). For rationale behind this, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225467#c2 --- lib/qemu.c | 12 ++---------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/qemu.c b/lib/qemu.c index 10bb83105..26b63c3b6 100644 --- a/lib/qemu.c +++ b/lib/qemu.c @@ -988,10 +988,6 @@ guestfs_int_discard_possible (guestfs_h *g, struct drive *drv, * discard option on -drive at all. */ bool qemu15 = guestfs_int_version_ge (qemu_version, 1, 5, 0); - /* qemu >= 1.6. This was the first version that supported unmap on - * qcow2 backing files. - */ - bool qemu16 = guestfs_int_version_ge (qemu_version, 1, 6, 0); if (!qemu15) NOT_SUPPORTED (g, false, @@ -1016,12 +1012,8 @@ guestfs_int_discard_possible (guestfs_h *g, struct drive *drv, } else if (STREQ (drv->src.format, "raw")) /* OK */ ; - else if (STREQ (drv->src.format, "qcow2")) { - if (!qemu16) - NOT_SUPPORTED (g, false, - _("discard cannot be enabled on this drive: " - "qemu < 1.6 cannot do discard on qcow2 files")); - } + else if (STREQ (drv->src.format, "qcow2")) + /* OK */ ; else { /* It's possible in future other formats will support discard, but * currently (qemu 1.7) none of them do. -- 2.21.0