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Date:      Wed, 10 Sep 2014 21:18:29 +0400
From:      Roman Bogorodskiy <novel@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Does anyone use the FreeBSD VM qcow2 images
Message-ID:  <20140910171827.GA1287@kloomba>
In-Reply-To: <20140910135251.GF48287@hub.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20140910135251.GF48287@hub.FreeBSD.org>

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  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

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