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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 17:52:49 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC - QCOW2 <-> QED image converter
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To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 05:15:29PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 06.04.2011 17:06, schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 07:41:37AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >> Yes, split images are not supported by block/vpc.c.
> > 
> > I'm working on that feature for vmdk right now, which is quite
> > interesting as vmdk really is two different format both claiming
> > to be vmdk, of which one is simply a text file telling how other
> > vmdk images are glued together.
> 
> Last time I checked the other one wasn't a single format either, but
> rather something like ten different subformats.

The binary vmdk files have a few different revisions too, yes.

> Anyway, if you're working on split VMDK images, I should probably stop
> advertising it as a GSoC project?

I didn't know it was advertised, but there's indeed no need to duplicate the
work.