From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC] qed: Add QEMU Enhanced Disk format
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:01:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100915210123.GA5526@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1283767478-16740-1-git-send-email-stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:04:38AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> The format supports sparse disk images. It does not rely on the host
> filesystem holes feature, making it a good choice for sparse disk images
> that need to be transferred over channels where holes are not supported.
Are these so important? Do people really pass VM images around with
http? Maybe it's enough to teach scp about sparse files instead.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-15 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 131+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-06 10:04 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qed: Add QEMU Enhanced Disk format Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-06 10:25 ` Alexander Graf
2010-09-06 10:31 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-06 14:21 ` Luca Tettamanti
2010-09-06 14:24 ` Alexander Graf
2010-09-06 16:27 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-06 10:27 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2010-09-06 12:40 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-06 12:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-06 13:02 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-06 14:10 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-06 16:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-06 12:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 23:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-06 11:18 ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
2010-09-06 12:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-06 13:35 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-09-06 16:38 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-06 13:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-07 14:51 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-07 15:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-07 16:09 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-07 16:25 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-07 22:27 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-08 8:23 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-08 8:41 ` Alexander Graf
2010-09-08 8:53 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-08 11:15 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-08 15:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-08 16:30 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-08 20:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-08 20:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-09 2:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-09 6:24 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-09 21:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-10 11:15 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-09 6:53 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 21:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-09-14 10:46 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-14 11:08 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-14 12:54 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-08 12:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-09 6:30 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-08 12:48 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-08 13:20 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-08 13:26 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-08 13:46 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-09 6:45 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-09 6:48 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-09 12:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-09 16:48 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2010-09-09 17:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-09 20:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-10 10:53 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 11:14 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 11:25 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 11:33 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-10 11:43 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 13:22 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 13:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-10 15:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 15:18 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-10 15:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 16:05 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-10 17:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 17:44 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-10 17:46 ` Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho
2010-09-10 14:02 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 13:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-10 14:05 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 14:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-10 14:24 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 13:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 14:06 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 11:43 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-10 12:06 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 13:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 12:12 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-10 12:35 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-10 12:47 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 13:10 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-10 13:19 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 13:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 13:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-10 13:56 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 13:48 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-10 13:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 13:47 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 14:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 15:49 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 17:07 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 17:42 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-10 19:33 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-13 10:41 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-12 13:24 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-12 15:13 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-12 15:56 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-12 17:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-12 17:51 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-12 20:18 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-13 9:24 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-13 11:28 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-13 11:34 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-13 11:48 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-13 13:19 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-13 13:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-13 11:03 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-13 13:07 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-13 13:24 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-07 16:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-07 21:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-07 22:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-07 22:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-08 15:07 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-09 6:59 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-09 17:43 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-09 20:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-10 11:22 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 11:29 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-10 11:37 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-07 13:58 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-07 19:25 ` Blue Swirl
2010-09-07 20:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-08 7:48 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-08 15:37 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-08 18:24 ` Blue Swirl
2010-09-08 18:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-08 18:56 ` Blue Swirl
2010-09-08 19:19 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-15 21:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2010-09-15 21:12 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
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