From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bie9F-000263-BA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:01:33 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bie9D-00025Z-I3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:01:33 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bie9D-00025W-Dj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:01:31 -0400 Received: from [62.253.162.45] (helo=mta05-svc.ntlworld.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bie6t-0003ee-99 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:59:07 -0400 Received: from [10.10.10.100] ([81.107.87.144]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with ESMTP id <20040708185627.VUOR2927.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@[10.10.10.100]> for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:56:27 +0100 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: RFC for new features From: Antony T Curtis In-Reply-To: References: <40ED8EF0.1040501@bellard.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1089313108.59382.95.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 19:58:28 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 19:46, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > - Support for more compressed and cow disk images formats so that > > filesystems without hole support can use cow disk images too. > > Nice idea ! Maybe also support for raw devices (dedicating a full HD to a > given guest OS might be quite justifiable in some setups...) ? Hmm... I am already able to use raw devices, both CDROM and Hard disks. One of the fun things I do is to boot FreeBSD Guest off a COW backed against the same partition that the FreeBSD Host is running. -- Antony T Curtis