From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FR4mq-0008KK-P1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 05:58:52 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FR4mo-0008Jd-Ka for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 05:58:52 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FR4mo-0008Ja-9Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 05:58:50 -0400 Received: from [209.61.157.189] (helo=sjsoft.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FR4qI-0007UQ-85 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 06:02:26 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by scir.sjsoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4159B298F37 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:58:44 +0200 (SAST) Received: from scir.sjsoft.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (scir.sjsoft.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32193-01 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:58:38 +0200 (SAST) Received: from [192.168.10.203] (tiri [192.168.10.203]) by scir.sjsoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9430929898C for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:58:38 +0200 (SAST) Message-ID: <443394CC.6050301@sjsoft.com> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:58:36 +0200 From: David Fraser MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] vmware puts up specs for it's disk format References: <20060403222341.GB1254@muon.de> <20060403235535.GA10338@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> <1144138146.10154.28.camel@localhost> <20060404133620.GA14949@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> In-Reply-To: <20060404133620.GA14949@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Jim C. Brown wrote: > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:09:06AM +0200, maestro wrote: > >>> This is already supported, as is creating them and using them directly. >>> (I was amazed when I first found out as well.) >>> >>> >> afaik they are only supported when the images consist of only 1 file. at >> least i was not able to run split images (e.g. every 2gb) >> >> as always i might be wrong on this >> > > Your right about this - but I talked to one of the vmdk developers, and he > said that the lack of support was due to the lack of demand. (It is real > easy to use dd to convert split images into single images, so support for this > is not really needed.) > > Basically, if u want split images to be supported in qemu, speak up now. ;) > I speak! It would be great to be able to use the split images, so that you don't have to alter the files to import them into qemu... Particularly using split files directly and then being able to use the same image from vmware... David