From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] vmdk stream-optimised format
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 19:23:35 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130819112335.GA27849@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A946BEF1E0D5A89DFF0499F@Ximines.local>
On Mon, 08/19 12:09, Alex Bligh wrote:
> I note some recent work on vmdk file support. Has anyone looked at
> supporting vmdk streaming format as an /output/ file format (I
> think we currently support it as an input format). This is what
> you need to use to upload a VM to vCenter. Currently the route
> is convert to raw then use:
>
> https://github.com/imcleod/VMDK-stream-converter
>
> which is some Python from Ian McLeod <imcleod@redhat.com>
> Life would be easier if qemu-img supported this directly.
> It does not look fantastically difficult.
>
> --
> Alex Bligh
>
Yes, that would be something possible to do. Is it the only format to
upload a VM to vCenter now, shouldn't normal VMDK be supported as well?
Thanks,
Fam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-19 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-19 11:09 [Qemu-devel] vmdk stream-optimised format Alex Bligh
2013-08-19 11:23 ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2013-08-19 11:50 ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-20 1:42 ` Fam Zheng
2013-08-20 6:51 ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-20 7:08 ` Fam Zheng
2013-08-20 10:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-20 13:37 ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-20 13:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-20 14:02 ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-20 14:51 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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