Support qcow data-file for Ceph storage
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Description
### The required feature described as a wish
As a User/Admin/Operator I would like to have support for the `data-file` functionality of libvirt 10.10 supported on newer hosts. This way one would be able to use a lot of different backup solutions such as virtnbdbackup to back up VMs running on a Ceph primary storage.
https://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.libvirt.org/msg07367.html
> * qemu: Support for the 'data-file' QCOW2 image feature
>
> The QEMU hypervisor driver now supports QCOW2 images with 'data-file'
feature present (both when probing form the image itself and when specified
explicitly via ```` element). This can be useful when it's
required to keep data "raw" on disk, but the use case requires features
of the QCOW2 format such as incremental backups.
There are probably a lot of things to take into account, but it would still be a great improvement.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reading the referenced libvirt 10.10 data-file feature description and tracing how CloudStack handles QCOW2 images on Ceph primary storage. Identify the storage and hypervisor entry points and existing tests involved; done means newer hosts can use QCOW2 data-file images for Ceph-backed VMs without breaking existing image handling.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- cloud, infrastructure
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100