From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M91DJ-0004u7-Hk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 14:17:25 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M91DE-0004su-OU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 14:17:25 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54333 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M91DE-0004sm-JR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 14:17:20 -0400 Received: from fd-2.mailout.artfiles.de ([212.72.187.61]:33940 helo=mailout.artfiles.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M91DE-0002bu-7Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 14:17:20 -0400 Received: from [77.128.94.212] (helo=[192.168.0.4]) auth=rr@bttr-software.de by mailout.artfiles.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) id 1M91DB-00009b-HQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 20:17:17 +0200 Message-ID: <4A1C322B.3000305@bttr-software.de> Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 20:17:15 +0200 From: Robert Riebisch 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Anthony Liguori 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. I vote for including this small patch. Besides using QEMU I have to convert images among different emulators / virtualizers very often. Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/