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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] using partition images
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 16:09:23 +0100
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> The syntax is getting kinda ugly though. Anthony suggested that we use
> mini-config files with all the options and just pass those to -hda (e.g.
> -hda multipart:hda.config)
>
> > A vmware split image file is just a composite of several raw images with
> > a funny config file.
>
> It'd still be nice if the vmware driver had support for using those config
> files instead of requiring a user to type this out by hand.

If you implement the config files mentioned above then supporting and 
autodetecting both qemu config files and vmware config files (assuming we 
want/need a new config file syntax) should be fairly straightforward. No need 
to modify the vmdk driver.

Paul