From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IEE7K-0005wX-Lz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:55:42 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IEE7I-0005vy-U6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:55:42 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IEE7I-0005vu-Q4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:55:40 -0400 Received: from one.dotblob.com ([195.56.55.181]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IEE7I-00022c-BQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:55:40 -0400 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtual PC block driver status From: Alex Beregszaszi In-Reply-To: <1171633595.3050.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1171633595.3050.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:55:30 +0200 Message-Id: <1185497730.22903.28.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 Cc: Paolo Abeni Hi, > As noted before (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-10/msg00153.html) > > Microsoft has published the format of virtual pc drive VHD. It should be > used also by xen. The specs are available here: > > http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/f/e/ffef50a5-07dd-4cf8-aaa3-442c0673a029/Virtual%20Hard%20Disk%20Format%20Spec_10_18_06.doc > > I would like to implement proper VHD support for qemu using such > information. In order to not duplicate effort, I would like to know if > some one is already working on updating current vpc block driver. You managed to do this work? I wrote the original driver, but have no interest on working on it. -- Alex