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| author | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2015-03-16 19:19:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2015-03-16 19:19:04 +0000 |
| commit | 3521f767067feedd06ef6d2efd24c1190c68638c (patch) | |
| tree | ddf22090c77557ee8e3c716eb67b53164207b4f9 /qemu-doc.texi | |
| parent | 17b11a1406fdc43b5022f32a6fbfcb005a353b38 (diff) | |
| parent | 47aced5078e13d6c1f4fbb59616654e577af8aaa (diff) | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging
Block patches for 2.3-rc0
# gpg: Signature made Mon Mar 16 16:11:55 2015 GMT using RSA key ID C88F2FD6
# gpg: Good signature from "Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>"
* remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream:
block/vpc: remove disabled code from get_sector_offset
block/vpc: rename footer->size -> footer->current_size
block/vpc: make calculate_geometry spec conform
vpc: Ignore geometry for large images
block/vpc: optimize vpc_co_get_block_status
block: Drop bdrv_find
blockdev: Convert bdrv_find to blk_by_name
migration: Convert bdrv_find to blk_by_name
monitor: Convert bdrv_find to blk_by_name
iotests: Test non-self-referential qcow2 refblocks
iotests: Add tests for refcount table growth
qcow2: Respect new_block in alloc_refcount_block()
qemu-img: Avoid qerror_report_err() outside QMP handlers, again
block: Fix block-set-write-threshold not to use funky error class
block: Deprecate QCOW/QCOW2 encryption
qemu-img: Fix convert, amend error messages for unknown options
iotests: Update 051's reference output
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-doc.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-doc.texi | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi index f5b0dc4588..8aa6dbf5d7 100644 --- a/qemu-doc.texi +++ b/qemu-doc.texi @@ -539,8 +539,8 @@ storage. @item qcow2 QEMU image format, the most versatile format. Use it to have smaller images (useful if your filesystem does not supports holes, for example -on Windows), optional AES encryption, zlib based compression and -support of multiple VM snapshots. +on Windows), zlib based compression and support of multiple VM +snapshots. Supported options: @table @code @@ -574,9 +574,10 @@ original file must then be securely erased using a program like shred, though even this is ineffective with many modern storage technologies. @end itemize -Use of qcow / qcow2 encryption is thus strongly discouraged. Users are -recommended to use an alternative encryption technology such as the -Linux dm-crypt / LUKS system. +Use of qcow / qcow2 encryption with QEMU is deprecated, and support for +it will go away in a future release. Users are recommended to use an +alternative encryption technology such as the Linux dm-crypt / LUKS +system. @item cluster_size Changes the qcow2 cluster size (must be between 512 and 2M). Smaller cluster |