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From: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
To: Lyu Mitnick <mitnick.lyu@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC: Improved image format compatibility
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:50:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D92B6A1.30405@mail.berlios.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimmjMmJBxQv1TTxTb=EU=C_rEgr-YYJSZ1i5zNJ@mail.gmail.com>

Am 29.03.2011 23:55, schrieb Lyu Mitnick:
> Hello all,
>
> I have used QEMU to assist me developing embedded system for 3 years. And I
> want to contribute to QEMU and participate Google Summer of Code this year.
> I have port binutils so I have some experienced with binary format. I
> noticed that there is no VHD support in qemu-img. A Virtual Hard Disk(VHD)
> is a virtual hard disk file format used in Microsoft virtual PC, Hyper-V,
> virtual box, xVM and Complete PC Backup  of vista and windows 7. I want to
> add support for VHD in GSoC. I am wondering whether this kind of idea is
> valuable to QEMU?? Or any another topic related image format is valuable to
> QEMU??
>
> thanks
>
> Mitnick

Hello Mitnick,

QEMU (including qemu-img) already supports the format vpc.
The code in block/vpc.c also uses the name vhd, so I think
vpc == vhd.

Regards
Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-30  4:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-29 21:55 [Qemu-devel] GSoC: Improved image format compatibility Lyu Mitnick
2011-03-30  4:50 ` Stefan Weil [this message]
2011-03-30  8:32   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-30 18:40     ` Lyu Mitnick
2011-03-30 19:11       ` Stefan Weil
2011-03-30 19:36         ` Lyu Mitnick
2011-04-01 15:15         ` Lyu Mitnick
2011-04-01 16:29           ` Kevin Wolf
2011-04-01 18:29             ` Lyu Mitnick
2011-04-02 13:54               ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-04-02 19:03                 ` Lyu Mitnick
2011-04-03  7:33                   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-04-04 17:35                     ` Lyu Mitnick
2011-04-01 17:02           ` Stefan Weil

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