From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Chunqiang Tang <ctang@us.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:31:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5ED71F.30901@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D5EAFA8.70909@mail.berlios.de>
On 02/18/2011 11:43 AM, Stefan Weil wrote:
>
> Is maintaining an additional file format really so much work?
> I have only some personal experience with vdi.c, and there maintainance
> was largely caused by interface changes and done by Kevin.
> Hopefully interfaces will stabilize, so changes will become less
> frequent.
>
> A new file format like fvd would be a challenge for the existing ones.
FVD isn't merged because it's gotten almost no review. If it turns out
that it is identical to an existing format and an existing format just
has a crappy implementation, it wouldn't be merged in favor of fixing
the existing format.
But if it has a compelling advantage for a reasonable use-case, it will
be merged.
I don't know where this whole discussion of "strategic formats" for QEMU
came from but that's never been the way the project has operated.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-18 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2011-02-15 19:45 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: Comparing New Image Formats: FVD vs. QED Chunqiang Tang
2011-02-16 12:34 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-02-17 16:04 ` Chunqiang Tang
2011-02-18 9:12 ` Strategic decision: COW format (was: [Qemu-devel] Re: Comparing New Image Formats: FVD vs. QED) Markus Armbruster
2011-02-18 9:57 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format Kevin Wolf
2011-02-18 14:20 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-02-22 8:37 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-02-22 8:56 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-02-22 10:21 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-02-22 15:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-02-22 16:15 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-02-22 18:18 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-02-23 9:13 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-02-23 14:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-02-23 14:55 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-02-23 13:43 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-23 14:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-02-23 14:38 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-02-23 15:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-02-23 15:36 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-23 15:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-02-23 15:59 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-23 15:54 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-02-23 15:23 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-23 15:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-02-23 15:37 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-23 15:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-02-23 16:03 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-23 16:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-02-23 16:15 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-02-25 11:20 ` Pavel Dovgaluk
[not found] ` <-1737654525499315352@unknownmsgid>
2011-02-25 13:22 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-02-23 15:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-02-23 15:59 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-02-23 16:00 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-23 15:33 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-02-23 15:38 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-18 17:43 ` Stefan Weil
2011-02-18 19:11 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-02-18 19:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-02-18 20:49 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-02-18 20:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-02-18 21:27 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-02-19 17:19 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-02-18 20:31 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2011-02-19 12:27 ` [Qemu-devel] Bugs in the VDI Block Device Driver Chunqiang Tang
2011-02-19 16:21 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-02-19 18:49 ` Stefan Weil
2011-02-20 22:13 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: Strategic decision: COW format Aurelien Jarno
2011-02-21 8:59 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-02-21 13:44 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-02-21 14:10 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-02-21 15:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-02-21 15:26 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-02-23 3:32 ` Chunqiang Tang
2011-02-23 13:20 ` Markus Armbruster
[not found] ` <OFAEB4CD91.BE989F29-ON8525783F.007366B8-85257840.00130B47@LocalDomain>
2011-03-13 5:51 ` Chunqiang Tang
2011-03-13 17:48 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-14 2:28 ` Chunqiang Tang
2011-03-14 13:22 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-14 13:53 ` Chunqiang Tang
2011-03-14 14:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-14 14:21 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-03-14 14:35 ` Chunqiang Tang
2011-03-14 14:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-14 15:05 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-14 15:08 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-03-14 14:26 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-14 14:30 ` Chunqiang Tang
2011-03-14 14:15 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-03-14 14:25 ` Chunqiang Tang
2011-03-14 14:31 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-14 16:32 ` Chunqiang Tang
2011-03-14 17:57 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-03-14 19:23 ` Chunqiang Tang
2011-03-14 20:16 ` Kevin Wolf
[not found] ` <OF7C2FDD40.E76A4E14-ON85257853.005ADD68-85257853.005AF16E@LocalDomain>
2011-03-14 21:32 ` Chunqiang Tang
2011-03-14 14:34 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-03-14 14:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-14 15:03 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-03-14 15:13 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-14 15:04 ` Chunqiang Tang
2011-03-14 15:07 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-14 10:12 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-02-22 8:40 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-02-16 13:21 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: Comparing New Image Formats: FVD vs. QED Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-02-17 16:04 ` Chunqiang Tang
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