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Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Anthony Liguori 
> <anthony@codemonkey.ws <mailto:anthony@codemonkey.ws>> wrote:
>
>     Something that would be pretty interesting, but also terribly
>     hacky, would be to have an option that would allow one to use a
>     disk with an offset.  For instance:
>
>     qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=foo.img,offset=4096,if=ide
>
>
> I assume this technique is more "mergable"

Than forking the qcow format?  Definitely, although I'm not convinced 
there isn't a better way to do it that is even less hacky.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori