From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fd5Wi-0005Xn-6B for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 09:11:52 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fd5Wf-0005VI-Tk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 09:11:51 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fd5Wf-0005Ut-Ik for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 09:11:49 -0400 Received: from [65.74.133.6] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Fd5XV-0007eF-8I for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 09:12:41 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] using partition images Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 14:11:36 +0100 References: <20060508035346.GA12697@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> <445F1B6C.70205@bellard.org> <20060508122620.GA19236@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> In-Reply-To: <20060508122620.GA19236@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605081411.42503.paul@codesourcery.com> 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 > > - 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