There was a security issue and it was fixed. Details here https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/853330 Vish On Jan 25, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Day, Phil wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have a half remembered conversation from the Boston summit where someone said that there was a security issue in using qcow2 as a format for creating snapshot images. > > Does that ring any bells with anyone, and if so can you expand on the potential issue please ? > > I think it was something to do with why base images have to be expanded after download, but I might be wrong on that. I’m particularly interested in using qcow2 as an upload format for snapshots. > > Thanks > Phil > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack at lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20120125/5f59651a/attachment.html>