From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42720) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNMvJ-0000vP-5Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 May 2018 14:31:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNMvI-000544-92 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 May 2018 14:31:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 19:30:58 +0100 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Message-ID: <20180528183058.GG2209@redhat.com> References: <20180518180440-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20180524113251.GB4660@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Max Reitz Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , ehabkost@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com, kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 08:10:32PM +0200, Max Reitz wrote: > As someone who is just naive and doesn't see the big picture, I don't > see what's wrong with using a tar file that contains the image and > additional data. FWIW an OVA file is exactly this: an uncompressed tar file containing disk image(s) and metadata. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/