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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:11:59 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow2: Allow qcow2 disk images with size zero
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To: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

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