mistranslation: 0.973 device: 0.874 instruction: 0.829 semantic: 0.783 graphic: 0.731 network: 0.566 boot: 0.523 other: 0.459 socket: 0.420 vnc: 0.347 KVM: 0.267 assembly: 0.098 Wrong error log when drive is specified qcow but qcow2 image file used. On archlinux qemu version 4.0.0 when I type: $ qemu-system-x86_64 -drive format=qcow,file=image.qcow2 ... I get this output in stderr qemu-system-x86_64 -drive format=qcow,file=image.qcow2 ...: Unsupported qcow version 3 image.qcow2 is a qcow2 image created by qemu-img. error states that problem is with lack support with qcow3 format but real problem is that foramt=qcow is wrong option. Fix has been included here: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=197bfa7da7c8eeb39aa5