From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 10 17:20:29 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48269E31; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:20:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x234.google.com (mail-la0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::234]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 96743125; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:20:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f52.google.com with SMTP id b8so10304396lan.11 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:20:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=hN9GgL4EcWiGbRxk3fbhN+PdTPZmJcWTv1O7EOmoVn4=; b=VfITPAj6zAYDCtoLFrXjCOeXazmsdmFXXERfleiPBtVDRMZSlxUxT/Vj8ujZ8e53Je 17c+xtCliFKt/1yyBs5M47V0E+qo28Kfkor7RFL5eHNm5BOKADbTMM0c8aBwauwiRXUq nKJXzafbzMjstyuPCaWxcHCAPHK5F3a21rhC7ROc8tBOGy7UNQtrjYJLaM8GvsxCGbtT 5o+i8xQFWZRf7Sp4hGISXB1HZ9gaDNYKKJ6bawK19gOaBRSasrWBDXuBO5kPjNZgainp XKy+wYMeEwweffmfIpL7ZEJCp1YSRJ/Hzh+GHHU/qE1izqm5fagGkPSFQyG7Hn7RqtSi uNow== X-Received: by 10.152.44.230 with SMTP id h6mr43313249lam.51.1410369626444; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:20:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kloomba ([95.104.129.68]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id as6sm5828434lbc.17.2014.09.10.10.20.25 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:20:25 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Roman Bogorodskiy Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 21:18:29 +0400 From: Roman Bogorodskiy To: Glen Barber Subject: Re: Does anyone use the FreeBSD VM qcow2 images Message-ID: <20140910171827.GA1287@kloomba> References: <20140910135251.GF48287@hub.FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140910135251.GF48287@hub.FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:20:29 -0000 --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Glen Barber wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I'm talking about the images available here: >=20 > http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/ >=20 > Since mkimg(1) in head/ and stable/10 supports VMDK and VHD formats, > I would prefer to remove the need to use qemu-img to generate the VM > images. >=20 > This would mean that the qcow2 format would no longer be produced. The qcow2 image format is very popular among Linux KVM/qemu-kvm users, maybe the most popular even. So I think it'd be useful to keep producing these images. Roman Bogorodskiy --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUEIfjAAoJEMltX/4IwiJqrqQH/j+Byc9ykrAbRsk1/GrzkGBN tYUUu6r+981CMsUb1ivyDD/Eq2Yms+0SYNBjsejO3KBmA0rvE35wFMMJSjzGTmr4 Qgg0G9Q/5bilobS6ovDSF5KvZeeMAA400J+Wwh4yFUHMhLTen8A4LKdeDjYwaZKz DDIdHWj6dxknwWbaXBMvBjvgdaDNcixi5egerz/VNGRHkLS6Zw4DNXvqkQ0grHq4 zRKVhoxl16IjHmnzw7dJ1S6Xy4enfS3KXB/A73KqCxtLZBWj4Tfs6OL3jZFXEqs1 vbVmE+aWiXLCsI8i55YTfj2gsLO4lneijSRslbAlR9Prjqs0GqcdXLAf5sy3Oew= =Xvl/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI--