On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Why even use a non-raw image format? The current implementation only >> does sparse files, but POSIX sparse raw files gives you the same >> feature. > > Because people have existing images they want to boot to? People don't have existing QCOW1 images they want to boot from :). They have vmdk, vhd, vdi, or qcow2. You can use qemu-img to convert them to raw. You can use qemu-nbd if you are desperate to boot from or inspect them in-place. But I think the natural path for a native Linux KVM tool is to fully exploit file systems and block layer features in Linux instead of implementing a userspace block layer. Stefan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
