From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FQlhq-0001oy-99 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:36:26 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FQlhm-0001oe-Qq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:36:25 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FQlhm-0001ob-Mh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:36:22 -0400 Received: from [128.8.10.163] (helo=po1.wam.umd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FQll4-0005Vt-VQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:39:47 -0400 Received: from jbrown.mylinuxbox.org (jma-box.student.umd.edu [129.2.253.219]) by po1.wam.umd.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k34DaLVY022537 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 09:36:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 09:36:20 -0400 From: "Jim C. Brown" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] vmware puts up specs for it's disk format Message-ID: <20060404133620.GA14949@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> References: <20060403222341.GB1254@muon.de> <20060403235535.GA10338@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> <1144138146.10154.28.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1144138146.10154.28.camel@localhost> 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 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. ;) > cheers > maestro > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel > -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.