On 2018-02-08 20:23, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Currently, qcow2_create() only parses the QemuOpts and then calls > qcow2_create2() for the actual image creation, which includes both the > creation of the actual file on the file system and writing a valid empty > qcow2 image into that file. > > The plan is that qcow2_create2() becomes the function that implements > the functionality for a future 'blockdev-create' QMP command, which only > creates the qcow2 layer on an already opened file node. > > This is a first step towards that goal: Let's move out anything that > deals with the protocol layer from qcow2_create2() into qcow2_create(). > This means that qcow2_create2() doesn't need a file name any more. > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf > Reviewed-by: Eric Blake > --- > block/qcow2.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ > 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) Reviewed-by: Max Reitz