On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 07:51:40AM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> What I'm not sure of is whether the streaming format has to be written
> sequentially from as opposed to random writes. I believe the way
> qemu-img convert works, one can't guarantee the writes are
> sequential.
It should be possible t
On 20 Aug 2013, at 14:37, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Yes, because vmdk does not implement bdrv_write_compressed. Sorry for
> leaving out the small "detail". :(
Would that be easy for me to fix?
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Alex Bligh
Il 20/08/2013 15:37, Alex Bligh ha scritto:
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> On 20 Aug 2013, at 11:53, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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>> It doesn't look too different from what "qemu-img convert -c" does,
>> except that you need to use the right "-o" incantation to specify the
>> format type.
>
> Extensive incanting did not produce
On 20 Aug 2013, at 11:53, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> It doesn't look too different from what "qemu-img convert -c" does,
> except that you need to use the right "-o" incantation to specify the
> format type.
Extensive incanting did not produce a result that works. Possibly
inadequate haruspication o
Il 20/08/2013 09:08, Fam Zheng ha scritto:
> On Tue, 08/20 07:51, Alex Bligh wrote:
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>> On 20 Aug 2013, at 02:42, Fam Zheng wrote:
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>>> OK, thanks for explaination. That sounds a valid use case for
>>> streamOptimized. However I am afraid QEMU and its users benefit not much
>>> from this featur
On Tue, 08/20 07:51, Alex Bligh wrote:
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> On 20 Aug 2013, at 02:42, Fam Zheng wrote:
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> > OK, thanks for explaination. That sounds a valid use case for
> > streamOptimized. However I am afraid QEMU and its users benefit not much
> > from this feature anyway, because it's moving a VM away to VMw
On 20 Aug 2013, at 02:42, Fam Zheng wrote:
> OK, thanks for explaination. That sounds a valid use case for
> streamOptimized. However I am afraid QEMU and its users benefit not much
> from this feature anyway, because it's moving a VM away to VMware, :)
> that might be the reason it's not there y
On Mon, 08/19 12:50, Alex Bligh wrote:
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> On 19 Aug 2013, at 12:23, Fam Zheng wrote:
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> > Yes, that would be something possible to do. Is it the only format to
> > upload a VM to vCenter now, shouldn't normal VMDK be supported as well?
>
> Ian puts it better than I can:
>
> > This format is o
On 19 Aug 2013, at 12:23, Fam Zheng wrote:
> Yes, that would be something possible to do. Is it the only format to
> upload a VM to vCenter now, shouldn't normal VMDK be supported as well?
Ian puts it better than I can:
> This format is only useful if you are attempting to import virtual machin
On Mon, 08/19 12:09, Alex Bligh wrote:
> I note some recent work on vmdk file support. Has anyone looked at
> supporting vmdk streaming format as an /output/ file format (I
> think we currently support it as an input format). This is what
> you need to use to upload a VM to vCenter. Currently the r
I note some recent work on vmdk file support. Has anyone looked at
supporting vmdk streaming format as an /output/ file format (I
think we currently support it as an input format). This is what
you need to use to upload a VM to vCenter. Currently the route
is convert to raw then use:
https://git
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