Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] vhd-util create: add -C|nocow option

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] vhd-util create: add -C|nocow 
option"):
> On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 14:41 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > This may seem like a daft question, but why do we even have a vhd
> > utility in our tree ?  Is there not some vhd tools package that this
> > should be in ?
> 
> vhd was originally a microsoft thing and I think most OSS projects
> adopted it in an ad-hoc and independent manner.
> 
> Most virt solutions have their own tools (e.g. qemu-img and virtualbox's
> thing) for these things.
> 
> I agree that it seems silly though I'm not proposing to start a separate
> project ;-)

On that basis we should probably take this patch...

Ian.

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