From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FQm39-0003Id-Te for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:58:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FQm38-0003E8-EW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:58:27 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FQm38-0003Dv-7e for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:58:26 -0400 Received: from [128.131.2.110] (helo=mr.tuwien.ac.at) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FQm6Q-0007WN-D1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:01:50 -0400 Received: from pizzabox.seclab.tuwien.ac.at (pizzabox.seclab.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.60.42]) by mr.tuwien.ac.at (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k34DwEfL025072 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 15:58:14 +0200 (MEST) Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] vmware puts up specs for it's disk format From: maestro In-Reply-To: <20060404133620.GA14949@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> References: <20060403222341.GB1254@muon.de> <20060403235535.GA10338@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> <1144138146.10154.28.camel@localhost> <20060404133620.GA14949@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:58:02 +0200 Message-Id: <1144159082.10154.45.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Am Dienstag, den 04.04.2006, 09:36 -0400 schrieb Jim C. Brown: > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:09:06AM +0200, maestro wrote: > > > This is already supported, as is creating them and using them directly. > > > (I was amazed when I first found out as well.) > > > > > afaik they are only supported when the images consist of only 1 file. at > > least i was not able to run split images (e.g. every 2gb) > > > > as always i might be wrong on this > > Your right about this - but I talked to one of the vmdk developers, and he > said that the lack of support was due to the lack of demand. (It is real > easy to use dd to convert split images into single images, so support for this > is not really needed.) > > Basically, if u want split images to be supported in qemu, speak up now. ;) well "want them to be supported" might be a little too much - i just think if some of the devs are bored this might be a way to save some people from hours/minutes hanging around the irc-channel and/or mailing list. just my 0.02eur cheers maestro