From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Ofsthun Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] (Refactored) VHD Support Addition Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:57:46 -0400 Message-ID: <467ABC1A.4010302@virtualiron.com> References: <467AB504.7040809@virtualiron.com> <20070621173518.GE13026@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070621173518.GE13026@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ben Guthro List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 01:27:32PM -0400, Ben Guthro wrote: >> ### vdisk_tool ### >> The vdisk_tool provides a means of creating, and converting vhd files. >> Like libvdisk, it is designed with future support of additional formats >> in mind, but currently only supports vhd. > > Why not just add vhd support to qemu's existing qemu-img tool, then it will > support all image formats, right from the start, rather than inventing yet > another tool :-( Well, when we started this, it wasn't clear we were going to be able to publicly release any code in support of the VHD format. Microsoft later relaxed the restrictions, and by that time the separate tool already existed. We can investigate integrating the work into qemu-img. > Any changes to QEMU should be sent to the QEMU upstream mailing lists for > review/inclusion too, otherwise the Xen fork gets even worse than it > already is Agreed. Steve -- Steve Ofsthun - Virtual Iron Software, Inc.