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| -rw-r--r-- | block/qcow.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/qcow.c b/block/qcow.c index 6dee5bb792..5bdf72ba33 100644 --- a/block/qcow.c +++ b/block/qcow.c @@ -156,7 +156,12 @@ static int qcow_open(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict *options, int flags, goto fail; } if (header.version != QCOW_VERSION) { - error_setg(errp, "Unsupported qcow version %" PRIu32, header.version); + error_setg(errp, "qcow (v%d) does not support qcow version %" PRIu32, + QCOW_VERSION, header.version); + if (header.version == 2 || header.version == 3) { + error_append_hint(errp, "Try the 'qcow2' driver instead.\n"); + } + ret = -ENOTSUP; goto fail; } |