From: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
To: Gandalf Corvotempesta <gandalf.corvotempesta@gmail.com>,
Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, libguestfs <libguestfs@redhat.com>,
Qemu-block <qemu-block@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-img] support for XVA
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 20:59:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0e6cc220-814a-17fd-4fd7-7b0665d34e81@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJH6TXhBAaBE9gBSxksWZqNywWmencRaGyeY-oN3jbKdgUettQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2017-11-15 18:44, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
> XVA is a tar archive.
> I don't think would be possible to directly use the image stored inside
> without extracting and merging each chunks
>
> Any random reads would be impossible to do, only a huge sequential dump to
> build the raw image
Well, you can't just add support to qemu-img alone either. Every image
format supported by qemu-img is one supported by qemu as a whole and
thus needs a proper block driver that needs to support random accesses
as well.
Max
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-15 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-15 15:52 [Qemu-devel] [qemu-img] support for XVA Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-15 17:33 ` Eric Blake
2017-11-15 17:44 ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-15 19:59 ` Max Reitz [this message]
2017-11-15 20:06 ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-15 20:07 ` Max Reitz
2017-11-15 20:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [Libguestfs] " Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-15 20:27 ` Max Reitz
2017-11-15 20:29 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-15 20:41 ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-15 21:05 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-15 21:15 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-15 21:30 ` Max Reitz
2017-11-15 21:42 ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-15 21:49 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-15 21:50 ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-15 21:50 ` Max Reitz
2017-11-15 22:28 ` Max Reitz
2017-11-15 22:47 ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-15 22:55 ` Max Reitz
2017-11-15 22:57 ` Max Reitz
2017-11-16 10:08 ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-16 14:02 ` Max Reitz
2017-11-20 21:48 ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-15 21:51 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-16 10:01 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-16 10:07 ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-16 10:11 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-16 12:56 ` Tomáš Golembiovský
2017-11-16 13:07 ` Tomáš Golembiovský
2017-11-16 13:08 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-15 19:43 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard W.M. Jones
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