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Subject: Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server v1 1/3] fix #4888: qmrestore:
 add diskformat option
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Am 04.02.25 um 17:21 schrieb Fiona Ebner:
> Am 04.02.25 um 17:13 schrieb Markus Frank:
>> Add an option to choose a file format (qcow2, raw, vmdk) when restoring
>> a vm backup to file based storage. This options allows all disks to be
>> recreated with the specified file format if supported by the target
>> storage.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Markus Frank <m.frank@proxmox.com>
>> ---
>> Choosing the file format and storage for each disk would require much
>> more change and would be more in line with Feature Request #4275.
> 
> It's not that much more change. And if we add this now and then the
> implementation for the other feature, we'll have duplicate/conflicting
> options, which is also not nice. We can deprecate this option then of
> course and later drop, but why not just go for the more complete
> solution directly? Or at least a solution that can be built upon for
> adding that feature later?

Although I guess it can still serve as a fallback later too, so maybe we
don't even need to drop it. For new multi-word options, please use
kebap-case. Also, the option should not be "pve-qm-image-format", but
"pve-storage-format".


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