The existing virDomainBlockRebase code rejected the combination of
_RELATIVE and _COPY flags, but only by accident. It makes sense
to add support for the combination someday, at least for the case
of _SHALLOW and not _REUSE_EXT; but to implement it, libvirt would
have to pre-create the file with a relative backing name, and I'm
not ready to code that in yet.
Meanwhile, the code to forward on to the block copy code is getting
longer, and reorganizing the function to have the block pull done
early makes it easier to add even more block copy prep code.
This patch should have no semantic difference other than the quality
of the error message on the unsupported flag combination. Pre-patch:
error: unsupported flags (0x10) in function qemuDomainBlockCopy
Post-patch:
error: argument unsupported: Relative backing during copy not supported yet
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemuDomainBlockRebase): Reorder code,
and improve error message of relative copy.