From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54479) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBm8u-0006Uy-Qj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:38:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBm8o-0000pj-Mn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:38:40 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:30381) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBm8o-0000oP-Bw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:38:34 -0400 Message-ID: <52137126.2030302@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:37:42 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4A946BEF1E0D5A89DFF0499F@Ximines.local> <20130819112335.GA27849@localhost.localdomain> <1960DADA-9E1D-48EF-9AE4-2805F0787E70@alex.org.uk> <20130820014243.GA7602@localhost.localdomain> <90D0FA8B-A032-4608-9CAA-B5BC26DC4D75@alex.org.uk> <20130820070859.GA11944@localhost.localdomain> <52134AAF.6050802@redhat.com> <428F8AA2-C3B7-4C30-BFA6-DB94B053AB1D@alex.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <428F8AA2-C3B7-4C30-BFA6-DB94B053AB1D@alex.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] vmdk stream-optimised format List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alex Bligh Cc: famz@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Il 20/08/2013 15:37, Alex Bligh ha scritto: > > On 20 Aug 2013, at 11:53, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >> It doesn't look too different from what "qemu-img convert -c" does, >> except that you need to use the right "-o" incantation to specify the >> format type. > > Extensive incanting did not produce a result that works. Possibly > inadequate haruspication on my part. I suspect it's only a minor > modification to support it. Yes, because vmdk does not implement bdrv_write_compressed. Sorry for leaving out the small "detail". :( Paolo