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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow3 - arbitrary metadata
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Jamie Lokier |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow3 - arbitrary metadata |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:49:40 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Can you provide more information about what the metadata is used for and
> why it's so important for the metadata to be in the image verses in a
> separate file?
Yeah, I have the opposite problem - too much in the same file :-)
I want to be able to savevm, but some of my VMs don't have any qcow2
images (because I don't trust them for mission-critical VMs since
recent discussion, or because they are floppy-only or CD-only VMs with
no hard disk).
To enable savevm, at least according to docs, I have to have a qcow2
image somewhere. So I add a redundant minimum-size unpartitioned
qcow2 hard disk and hope nobody minds...
That seems a bit hackish. It would be nice if savevm could just write
to a named file and loadvm could read it.
-- Jamie
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow3 - arbitrary metadata, Nathaniel McCallum, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow3 - arbitrary metadata, Anthony Liguori, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow3 - arbitrary metadata, Nathaniel McCallum, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow3 - arbitrary metadata, Anthony Liguori, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow3 - arbitrary metadata, Nathaniel McCallum, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow3 - arbitrary metadata, Anthony Liguori, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow3 - arbitrary metadata, Nathaniel McCallum, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow3 - arbitrary metadata, Anthony Liguori, 2008/07/28
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow3 - arbitrary metadata,
Jamie Lokier <=
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow3 - arbitrary metadata, Anthony Liguori, 2008/07/28
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow3 - arbitrary metadata, Jamie Lokier, 2008/07/29
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow3 - arbitrary metadata, Anthony Liguori, 2008/07/29
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow3 - arbitrary metadata, Jamie Lokier, 2008/07/29
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow3 - arbitrary metadata, Daniel P. Berrange, 2008/07/29
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow3 - arbitrary metadata, Laurent Vivier, 2008/07/28