From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>,
Erik Rull <erik.rull@rdsoftware.de>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Comparison of virtual disks?
Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 14:27:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <554765C2.7010900@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55475499.1040708@redhat.com>
On 04/05/2015 13:14, Max Reitz wrote:
> I'm sorry, but I don't know whether such a chart exists (the closest
> thing I know is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Disk_images -
> which is not very close...). However, the general assumption we as
> developers are working with is that if the user's top priority is
> performance, they should use raw; and if they want to use all of the
> features qemu's block layer provides, they should use qcow2. All other
> formats are implemented merely for compatibility and ideally they should
> not be used for running VMs, but only for converting them to qcow2 using
> qemu-img convert.
In addition to this, there are a bunch of image formats that have good
read performance: I can think of vhdx, vmdk, vdi. These can be used as
backing images for qcow2, for example the virt-v2v tool uses this trick
to convert Hyper-V and VMware images without copying them first.
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-04 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-03 8:16 [Qemu-devel] Comparison of virtual disks? Erik Rull
2015-05-04 11:14 ` Max Reitz
2015-05-04 12:27 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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