Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/12] Adding VMDK monolithic flat support

[Fam Zheng <famcool@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 4:18 PM,  <famcool@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Fam Zheng <famcool@gmail.com>
>
> VMDK multiple file images can not be recognized for now. This patch series is
> adding monolithic flat support to it, that is the image type with two
> files, one text descriptor file and a plain data file. This type of
> image can be created in VMWare, with the options "allocate all disk
> space now" and "store virtual disk as a single file" checked.
>
> A VmdkExtent structure is introduced to hold the image "extent"
> information, which makes further adding multi extents support of VMDK
> easy. An image creating option "flat" is added for creating flat
> (preallocated) image.
Oops, this comment is obsolete, the flag is adjusted to a string
option "format". See patch [10/12].
>
> Fam Zheng (12):
>  VMDK: introduce VmdkExtent
>  VMDK: bugfix, align offset to cluster in get_whole_cluster
>  VMDK: probe for monolithicFlat images
>  VMDK: separate vmdk_open by format version
>  VMDK: add field BDRVVmdkState.desc_offset
>  VMDK: flush multiple extents
>  VMDK: move 'static' cid_update flag to bs field
>  VMDK: change get_cluster_offset return type
>  VMDK: open/read/write for monolithicFlat image
>  VMDK: create different subformats
>  VMDK: fix coding style
>  BlockDriver: add bdrv_get_allocated_file_size() operation
>
>  block.c           |   19 +
>  block.h           |    1 +
>  block/raw-posix.c |   21 +
>  block/raw-win32.c |   29 ++
>  block/vmdk.c      | 1360 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  block_int.h       |    2 +
>  qemu-img.c        |   31 +--
>  7 files changed, 1026 insertions(+), 437 deletions(-)
>
>



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Best regards!
Fam Zheng