From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60029) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNfHQ-0004TS-2O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 10:07:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNfHG-0008Cp-9r for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 10:07:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 15:06:46 +0100 From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Message-ID: <20180529140646.GB2578@work-vm> References: <20180518180440-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20180518170956.GI8615@redhat.com> <20180518174133.GC25013@localhost.localdomain> <87bmdc18q5.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> <20180521182928.GO25013@localhost.localdomain> <20180521184440.GB8214@redhat.com> <20180521190112.GP25013@localhost.localdomain> <87o9h6hb59.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> <20180523121344.GB8988@localhost.localdomain> <874liycoto.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <874liycoto.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster Cc: Eduardo Habkost , kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-block@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, mreitz@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com * Markus Armbruster (armbru@redhat.com) wrote: > Seriously, though: are disk images a sane way to package software? They're not actually terrible. You can just start a VM with them straight away, no unpacking required, no installation time. Especially when used with something like -snapshot. It's also easy for the person packaging them. Dave -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK