From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47184) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eF3y3-0001qT-8n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:07:28 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eF3y2-0004xH-Bf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:07:27 -0500 References: <0e6cc220-814a-17fd-4fd7-7b0665d34e81@redhat.com> From: Max Reitz Message-ID: <30b54865-2255-d13d-a054-afcf5bbd06b2@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:07:12 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="U4rk9ToqUvVULXK8Q9bwuvqOH2Bin2LAo" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-img] support for XVA List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gandalf Corvotempesta Cc: Eric Blake , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, libguestfs , Qemu-block This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --U4rk9ToqUvVULXK8Q9bwuvqOH2Bin2LAo From: Max Reitz To: Gandalf Corvotempesta Cc: Eric Blake , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, libguestfs , Qemu-block Message-ID: <30b54865-2255-d13d-a054-afcf5bbd06b2@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-img] support for XVA References: <0e6cc220-814a-17fd-4fd7-7b0665d34e81@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2017-11-15 21:06, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2017-11-15 20:59 GMT+01:00 Max Reitz : >> Well, you can't just add support to qemu-img alone either. Every imag= e >> format supported by qemu-img is one supported by qemu as a whole and >> thus needs a proper block driver that needs to support random accesses= >> as well. >=20 > I was talking about qemu-img convert, just to convert an XVA image to > something different, in a single pass, without having to extract the > tar. I know, but that doesn't work. qemu-img convert uses the normal general-purpose block drivers for that. Max --U4rk9ToqUvVULXK8Q9bwuvqOH2Bin2LAo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQFGBAEBCAAwFiEEkb62CjDbPohX0Rgp9AfbAGHVz0AFAloMnnASHG1yZWl0ekBy ZWRoYXQuY29tAAoJEPQH2wBh1c9AODsH/01t4eLrg2rtTmqJzu0OS+2fXCYBNwLw ePpEltSPUlwZDRN+zVJ101KByh/vVD8fdxrCxae2O0r8Ph3xNr81Up5CTNFD2Ecw 2ZY71lSFBXalzIZJWiyUxON32AsF/tKPqkThNvXZX2E2aIeLigePs8kRNq/Dzy+f 7Y/kXxvwhrlOkFhwwH3/8ttAyXGBvcsDArplBLtdmFVcMtRmjI7U/iVkYUuNjFje Nbk8J9Aa6k7qDs1CsN5aDK98fV5sn61ksila0LnUmco0548oLF8HHAGQwGgtcKBr 3xdj0F2rjeLAgj5ON9WI47W+PeeVuGUK4dHlJWt2qyi1x5UVWXMacI0= =gVA6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --U4rk9ToqUvVULXK8Q9bwuvqOH2Bin2LAo--