Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 08:10:32PM +0200, Max Reitz wrote:
> As someone who is just naive and doesn't see the big picture, I don't
> see what's wrong with using a tar file that contains the image and
> additional data.

FWIW an OVA file is exactly this: an uncompressed tar file containing
disk image(s) and metadata.

Rich.

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