From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Cc: Gandalf Corvotempesta <gandalf.corvotempesta@gmail.com>,
Qemu-block <qemu-block@nongnu.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, libguestfs <libguestfs@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Libguestfs] [qemu-img] support for XVA
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:51:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171115215114.GP2787@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b6f8758-5e3e-e759-1592-2768eb85b322@redhat.com>
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:30:31PM +0100, Max Reitz wrote:
> Hmmm... OK, so as Rich said, you can use the raw driver with an offset
> and a size. And you can use the null-co driver to emulate holes. And
> qemu-img convert supports concatenation.
Nice, I didn't know qemu-img convert could concatenate :-)
So that's two distinct ways to do this, neither needing any qemu
modifications.
Rich.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-15 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-15 15:52 [Qemu-devel] [qemu-img] support for XVA Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-15 17:33 ` Eric Blake
2017-11-15 17:44 ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-15 19:59 ` Max Reitz
2017-11-15 20:06 ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-15 20:07 ` Max Reitz
2017-11-15 20:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [Libguestfs] " Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-15 20:27 ` Max Reitz
2017-11-15 20:29 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-15 20:41 ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-15 21:05 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-15 21:15 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-15 21:30 ` Max Reitz
2017-11-15 21:42 ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-15 21:49 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-15 21:50 ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-15 21:50 ` Max Reitz
2017-11-15 22:28 ` Max Reitz
2017-11-15 22:47 ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-15 22:55 ` Max Reitz
2017-11-15 22:57 ` Max Reitz
2017-11-16 10:08 ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-16 14:02 ` Max Reitz
2017-11-20 21:48 ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-15 21:51 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2017-11-16 10:01 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-16 10:07 ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-16 10:11 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-16 12:56 ` Tomáš Golembiovský
2017-11-16 13:07 ` Tomáš Golembiovský
2017-11-16 13:08 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-15 19:43 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard W.M. Jones
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