On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. For optimum performance, sure, but we want to support non-native images for usability reasons. -- 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
