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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow2: Allow qcow2 disk images with size zero
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:11:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE6FFAF.6010405@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1256569876-13038-1-git-send-email-weil@mail.berlios.de>

Stefan Weil wrote:
> Images with disk size 0 may be used for
> VM snapshots, but not to save normal block data.
>
> It is possible to create such images using
> qemu-img, but opening them later fails.
>
> So even "qemu-img info image.qcow2" is not
> possible for an image created with
> "qemu-img create -f qcow2 image.qcow2 0".
>
> This is fixed here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
>   

What do you think Kevin?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-27 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-26 15:11 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow2: Allow qcow2 disk images with size zero Stefan Weil
2009-10-27 14:11 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-10-27 16:44   ` Kevin Wolf
2009-10-27 17:17     ` Stefan Weil

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