From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fxgbw-0008LG-A5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 04:50:24 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fxgbu-0008JN-4w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 04:50:23 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fxgbt-0008J9-Se for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 04:50:21 -0400 Received: from [195.101.245.16] (helo=p-mail2.rd.francetelecom.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FxgpX-0007NY-4M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:04:27 -0400 Message-ID: <44AA2BA8.3070709@twilight-hall.net> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:49:44 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rapha=EBl_Rigo?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QCow v2 References: <1151981142.5476.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1151981142.5476.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > Mark's notes on the qcow format got me to thinking how useful it would > be to be able to store other information in the qcow image itself. For > instance you could store the configuration for the virtual machine in > the image which could be extracted and then start the virtual machine. > Hello, I think it would be much more interesting to store the virtual machine in a config file as vmware does. This way you can use a .cow file with several virtual machines. Regards, Raphaël