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Date:      Thu, 20 Aug 2015 12:29:11 +0530
From:      anup shendkar <anupshendkar@gmail.com>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bhyve: Support for QCOW2 image format
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> wrot=
e:
>
> On Aug 19, 2015, at 10:55 AM, anup shendkar <anupshendkar@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
>
>
> On 18-Aug-2015 9:35 PM, "Marcel Moolenaar" <marcel@xcllnt.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > On Aug 18, 2015, at 2:51 AM, anup shendkar <anupshendkar@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Hi Anup,
>> >>
>> >>> Please let me know if anybody has any information on it. I got to kn=
ow
>> >>> from IRC channel that work is in progress for generic framework to
>> >>> support various image file formats for bhyve.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> The work was being done in a branch:
>> >>
>> >>    https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/marcel/libvdsk/
>> >>
>> >
>> > Hi Marcel,
>> >
>> > I went through above branch. There are place-holder files containing
>> > stub functions defined for qcow, vhd, vmdk image format support. I
>> > would like to work on supporting qcow image format. It would be nice
>> > if you could push your latest changes to the branch. That would be
>> > helpful to get me started.
>>
>> Everything is already on the branch. Getting it hooked up with
>> bhyve was my priority, but we=E2=80=99ve not crossed that hurdle yet=E2=
=80=A6
>
> Thanks Marcel. Will continue from your branch. Thanks again.
>
> Things may change significantly in how libvdsk is used with bhyve.
> My advice is to focus on the internal plumbing of libvdsk and not
> so much on its integration with bhyve.
>
Yes definitely. Initially I am planning to focus on
"libvdsk/libvdsk/qcow.c" and make it working with bhyve.

> BTW: Shall I move this code to github for easy collaboration?
>
Yes. As you said, that would make collaboration easier.

Thanks,
Anup
> --
> Marcel Moolenaar
> marcel@xcllnt.net
>
>
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