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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:50:41 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC: Improved image format compatibility
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To: Lyu Mitnick <mitnick.lyu@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

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