[VCL-911] Ensure qcow2 images are saved in backwards compatible format

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Fix Version/s: 2.5
• Component/s: vcld (backend)
• Assignee: Andrew Kurth
• Reporter: Andrew Kurth
• Created: 13/Oct/15 20:12
• Updated: 27/Apr/17 19:55
• Resolved: 27/Apr/17 19:55

Description

Newer versions of QEMU create qcow2 images which are not backwards compatible by default. This is nicely described here.

The code should be updated to use the -o compat=0.10 argument when calling qemu-img.