From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi124@gmail.com>,
mingo@elte.hu, kvm@vger.kernel.org, asias.hejun@gmail.com,
gorcunov@gmail.com, levinsasha928@gmail.com,
stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm tool: add QCOW verions 1 read/write support
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:03:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DA809E1.2040804@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTim_23dbaPdsO_3nbtGM-Q4EyBDUQw@mail.gmail.com>
Am 15.04.2011 08:24, schrieb Pekka Enberg:
> Hi Christoph,
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 08:01:58PM +0100, Prasad Joshi wrote:
>>> The patch only implements the basic read write support for QCOW version 1
>>> images. Many of the QCOW features are not implmented, for example
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>> What's the point? Qcow1 has been deprecated for a long time.
>
> We're going to add QCOW2 too. Do you think there's no value in
> supporting QCOW1 and we should drop it completely? I have no
> objections in being QCOW2-only.
We're not going to remove it from qemu soon, but the main point for
keeping it is conversion of old qcow1 images to current formats.
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-15 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-13 19:01 [PATCH] kvm tool: add QCOW verions 1 read/write support Prasad Joshi
2011-04-13 19:09 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-04-15 3:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-15 6:24 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-04-15 9:03 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2011-04-15 10:11 ` Ingo Molnar
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