From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] using partition images
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 14:11:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200605081411.42503.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060508122620.GA19236@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org>
> > - Instead of copying the raw block driver, use the block driver
> > recursively.
>
> I'll work on this tonight. I've been thinking about doing this, since it
> would allow one to use any qemu-supported disk image format as a partition
> image.
>
> I can't think of any disk format that's heavily used in qemu that is
> normally used for partition images except for raw. OTOH it might be
> interesting to have qcow partition images.
If done properly this should also allow use of vmware split image files.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-08 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-08 3:53 [Qemu-devel] using partition images Jim C. Brown
2006-05-08 4:49 ` Jim C. Brown
2006-05-08 10:20 ` Fabrice Bellard
2006-05-08 12:26 ` Jim C. Brown
2006-05-08 12:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-05-08 13:11 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2006-05-08 14:19 ` Jim C. Brown
2006-05-08 14:28 ` Paul Brook
2006-05-08 14:59 ` Jim C. Brown
2006-05-08 15:09 ` Paul Brook
2006-05-08 14:49 ` Jim C. Brown
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