From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Wolf Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm tool: add QCOW verions 1 read/write support Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:03:29 +0200 Message-ID: <4DA809E1.2040804@redhat.com> References: <1302721318-29904-1-git-send-email-prasadjoshi124@gmail.com> <20110415032437.GA27457@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Prasad Joshi , mingo@elte.hu, kvm@vger.kernel.org, asias.hejun@gmail.com, gorcunov@gmail.com, levinsasha928@gmail.com, stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: Pekka Enberg Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:21436 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753842Ab1DOJBd (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:01:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 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