From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M8sgj-0002rn-Pc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 05:11:13 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M8sgd-0002qs-JM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 05:11:12 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33619 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M8sgd-0002ql-BA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 05:11:07 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:33807) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M8sgc-0005zI-Ta for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 05:11:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4A1BB1DE.3080600@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 11:09:50 +0200 From: Kevin Wolf MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Patch: Adding ability for qemu-img to create SCSI VMware disk images References: <4A16D5B8.50508@codemonkey.ws> <4A1BA22D.4040008@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4A1BA22D.4040008@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Aaron Mason , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" Anthony Liguori schrieb: > Aaron Mason wrote: >> Who said the images had to be used for QEMU? As I said, I use the >> utility primarily for creating VMware images. > > If it's not useful for QEMU, then I don't see that it's worth > maintaining within QEMU. Then I wonder why we have the compat6 option for VMDK. I would be rather surprised if it was useful for qemu itself. FWIW, I know that SUSE had a use for these SCSI VMDKs and they carry a local patch for it. I would prefer to have such things upstream, even if it's just for exporting. After all, qemu-img is the Swiss army knife for images. Kevin