[pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server v3 2/4] fix 4888: qmrestore: add disk-format option

Fiona Ebner f.ebner at proxmox.com
Wed May 21 15:09:43 CEST 2025


Am 07.03.25 um 10:25 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 at proxmox.com>

Looks good to me, but some slight changes would be nice, see below:

Reviewed-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner at proxmox.com>

> ---
> v3:
> * added requires => 'archive' to disk-format
> * changed descriptions
> * added missing imports/uses
> * check if disk_format is in validFormats
> 
>  PVE/API2/Qemu.pm     |  7 +++++++
>  PVE/CLI/qmrestore.pm |  5 +++++
>  PVE/QemuServer.pm    | 14 +++++++++-----
>  3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm b/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm
> index 5ac61aa5..3f4d19cc 100644
> --- a/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm
> +++ b/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm

Should add an include for PVE::Storage::Common if you make the requested
change for 1/4. I guess it would be inherited implicitly, but it's nicer
to explicitly include it.

> diff --git a/PVE/CLI/qmrestore.pm b/PVE/CLI/qmrestore.pm
> index a47648bd..9910f30d 100755
> --- a/PVE/CLI/qmrestore.pm
> +++ b/PVE/CLI/qmrestore.pm
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package PVE::CLI::qmrestore;
>  use strict;
>  use warnings;
>  use PVE::SafeSyslog;
> +use PVE::Storage;

Should be PVE::Storage::Common if you make the requested change for 1/4.

> @@ -7064,7 +7068,7 @@ sub restore_proxmox_backup_archive {
>  	$restore_cleanup_oldconf->($storecfg, $vmid, $oldconf, $virtdev_hash) if $oldconf;
>  
>  	# allocate volumes
> -	my $map = $restore_allocate_devices->($storecfg, $virtdev_hash, $vmid);
> +	my $map = $restore_allocate_devices->($storecfg, $virtdev_hash, $vmid, $options->{disk_format});
>  
>  	foreach my $virtdev (sort keys %$virtdev_hash) {
>  	    my $d = $virtdev_hash->{$virtdev};
> @@ -7461,7 +7465,7 @@ sub restore_vma_archive {
>  	}
>  
>  	# allocate volumes
> -	my $map = $restore_allocate_devices->($cfg, $virtdev_hash, $vmid);
> +	my $map = $restore_allocate_devices->($cfg, $virtdev_hash, $vmid, $opts->{disk_format});
>  
>  	# print restore information to $fifofh
>  	foreach my $virtdev (sort keys %$virtdev_hash) {

There's a restore_external_archive() function that also calls
$restore_allocate_devices->() now which should be adapted too.




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