From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44740) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zyiab-0002db-HL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:54:38 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZyiaY-00012S-8S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:54:37 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55746) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZyiaY-00012K-2l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:54:34 -0500 References: <1447674737-32430-1-git-send-email-den@openvz.org> From: Eric Blake Message-ID: <564B4DB4.1070005@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 08:54:28 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1447674737-32430-1-git-send-email-den@openvz.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="KFo5KHox5qXOebN47utCoPO1V1iLvJlgp" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] parallels: add format spec List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Denis V. Lunev" Cc: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy , John Snow , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --KFo5KHox5qXOebN47utCoPO1V1iLvJlgp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11/16/2015 04:52 AM, Denis V. Lunev wrote: > From: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy >=20 > This specifies Parallels image format as implemented in Parallels Cloud= > Server 6.10 Are we the canonical location of the specification? If not, do we risk getting out of sync with the canonical Parallels Cloud Server documentation, in which case, wouldn't it be better to point to a URL of the externally-maintained spec rather than duplicating it here? > +++ b/docs/specs/parallels.txt > @@ -0,0 +1,218 @@ > +=3D Parallels Expandable Image File Format =3D > + Is this document okay under the default GPLv2+ license, or does it need to explicitly call out a different license? > +=3D=3D Header =3D=3D > + > +The header is placed at the start of an image and contains the followi= ng > +fields: > + > + char magic[16] > + Must contain "WithoutFreeSpace" or "WithouFreSpacExt". > + > + uint32 version > + Must be 2. > + You may want to compare to the qcow2 spec, which also lists expected byte offsets for each field (rather than having to count how many earlier fields of which widths were specified). --=20 Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --KFo5KHox5qXOebN47utCoPO1V1iLvJlgp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWS020AAoJEKeha0olJ0NqpC4H/3dO+0Bqu8aLF9AxWNXCj5+/ jnJcnkDzkBoT2RgV3HklF/VrSLQ8ak8ODXQnXq4YmmrXYSJN2DRFJfrZ8tNO94Me yZMvM+e95SCJL3Z3dHp7YjicT4iBW2gczJ8e0owq3N18thA7iQuLq/nYgDaGWICu mk1Uq9kUAUE+AVVocBh5zmcdGUXCDikM4w2WkljAkLnuwdQ/xPZlxzxFXTDzSoot q5Sgqh6zEbvRW94sdlutw46KYDmuvtox/hciKrF9LhPSZi1DkC0iyBA7SKYeS3Yl arx5v0Z4vEvUAeVBFHNVjr/KIdiuW+t0GYwDdK/pTIR6gb3ou52AH1ZF6rhXxSE= =fT/H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KFo5KHox5qXOebN47utCoPO1V1iLvJlgp--