From: Alex Beregszaszi <alex@fsn.hu>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add support for VDI images
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:25:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1185495926.22903.22.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707022034.53206.even.rouault@mines-paris.org>
Hi,
> This patch adds support for reading, writing and creation (and thus
> conversion) of VDI images (VirtualBox image format). Creation of derived
> images above read-only base images also works, through a hack (the base image
> filename is stored as the comment of the derived image)
> It's mainly a thin wrapper around VirtualBox OSE source code.
> It may not compile on non-Linux hosts, and it definitely won't work on big
> endian hosts. So, there's still a bit of work to do for those interested by
> running it on those platforms.
What about writing a native implementation? At least with read support,
for importing from Virtualbox.
--
Alex
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-27 0:25 UTC|newest]
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2007-07-02 18:34 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add support for VDI images Even Rouault
2007-07-27 0:25 ` Alex Beregszaszi [this message]
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