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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 09:40:41 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Patch: Adding ability for qemu-img to create SCSI
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To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Aaron Mason <absorbentshoulderman@gmail.com>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:29:16AM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> No, I'm not happy with this particular patch, especially given that it
> doesn't apply to master any more. ;-)
> 
> You said this was "not useful", so I'm just talking of the
> functionality, independent of the code. And code-wise, it really should
> be only a few lines to vmdk - which makes the create function longer by
> maybe five lines, but hardly more complex.

Exactly my though.  Rebased ontop of Kevin's option rework this is
pretty trivial and useful enough to put it in.

Aaron, can you rebase this to the lastest git tree?