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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>, Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
	QEMU Developer <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	qemu-block@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] German BSI analysed security of KVM / QEMU
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 17:24:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171016152404.GD5145@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171016133812.GB11975@redhat.com>

Am 16.10.2017 um 15:38 hat Daniel P. Berrange geschrieben:
> > Another thing that made me a bit sad is that they mention qed as a
> > better performing alternative for qcow2. Even in 2017, people keep
> > spreading this nonsense. :-(
> 
> Probably because when you google for QED you inevitably hit this article
> near the top:
> 
>   https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTY0MQ
> 
> And there's little clear information on QEMU website to show that QED
> is essentially an obsolete experiment.
> 
> Perhaps some clear update to this page would help, and also in the
> qemu docs
> 
>   https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QED

I updated the wiki page, maybe this will help a bit.

We could also consider printing a warning when you create a new image in
an obsolete native qemu format (i.e. qcow1 and qed).

Kevin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-16 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-13  9:10 [Qemu-devel] German BSI analysed security of KVM / QEMU Stefan Weil
2017-10-13  9:37 ` Cornelia Huck
2017-10-13  9:44   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-10-13  9:53     ` Cornelia Huck
2017-10-16 13:22     ` Kevin Wolf
2017-10-16 13:38       ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-10-16 13:47         ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Alberto Garcia
2017-10-16 15:24         ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2017-10-13 10:30   ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Weil

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