According to our IRC discussion detecting the local qemu version and - in case it is too old - adding a safety option to not enable lazy- refcounts - would be a solution.
We have to balance that effort vs. the remaining time precise will be supported in the face of uvtool being only a ppa there. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1620633 Title: qcow image created in precise is not usable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/uvtool/+bug/1620633/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs