From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56983 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OvzCT-0003dZ-63 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:07:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OvzCO-00034N-Cg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:07:28 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:20012) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OvzCO-00034H-2C for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:07:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:01:23 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20100915210123.GA5526@redhat.com> References: <1283767478-16740-1-git-send-email-stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1283767478-16740-1-git-send-email-stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC] qed: Add QEMU Enhanced Disk format List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: Kevin Wolf , Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:04:38AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > The format supports sparse disk images. It does not rely on the host > filesystem holes feature, making it a good choice for sparse disk images > that need to be transferred over channels where holes are not supported. Are these so important? Do people really pass VM images around with http? Maybe it's enough to teach scp about sparse files instead. -- MST