[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] (Refactored) VHD Support Addition
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 01:27:32PM -0400, Ben Guthro wrote: > [PATCH 0/4] (Refactored) VHD Support addition > The patches that follow implement Microsoft's VHD format support, and > apply to xen-unstable.hg CS 15414:3827b12d24dd > Per Mark McLoughlin's suggestions - these have been reworked to use the > tapaio wrapper. > > This is based on the VHD format spec covered by Microsoft's "Open > Specification Promise": > http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp/default.mspx > MS VHD Spec can be found at the following link: > http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/f/e/ffef50a5-07dd-4cf8-aaa3-442c0673a029/Virtual%20Hard%20Disk%20Format%20Spec_10_18_06.doc > > It is divided up into the following patches: > qemu-vhd-support.patch [1/4] > tapdisk-vhd-support.patch [2/4] > blktap-fixes.patch [3/4] > vdisk-support.patch [4/4] > > ### libvdisk #### > These patches implement a shared library (libvdisk) between qemu, and > blktap which can be expanded upon for additional formats in the future. > This was done in order to avoid code duplcation between the two areas. > At this time, it only supports the vhd format. > > ### vdisk_tool ### > The vdisk_tool provides a means of creating, and converting vhd files. > Like libvdisk, it is designed with future support of additional formats > in mind, but currently only supports vhd. Why not just add vhd support to qemu's existing qemu-img tool, then it will support all image formats, right from the start, rather than inventing yet another tool :-( Any changes to QEMU should be sent to the QEMU upstream mailing lists for review/inclusion too, otherwise the Xen fork gets even worse than it already is Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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