From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48648) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQZTU-0001Js-3z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 10:31:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQZTQ-0001Zo-UD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 10:31:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 17:31:28 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20180606173039-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20180528183058.GG2209@redhat.com> <20180528183833.GJ4580@localhost.localdomain> <20180528212054.GH2209@redhat.com> <20180528212510.GC4660@redhat.com> <20180529064415.GA4756@localhost.localdomain> <2b3eef00-f326-c1e6-0e4b-b7602646eec4@redhat.com> <20180606123237.2235ae4a@kitsune.suse.cz> <20180606114035.GG1455@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180606114035.GG1455@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Richard W.M. Jones" Cc: Max Reitz , Michal =?iso-8859-1?Q?Such=E1nek?= , Kevin Wolf , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com, ehabkost@redhat.com, qemu-block@nongnu.org On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 12:40:35PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I started off a long reply here, but I think you're right. If we > cannot make people decide on and use a proper disk image + metadata > container, then it's also unlikely we'll get them to add sensible > metadata to their qcow2 images either :-( > > Rich. But we can do it for them: ask how to run image, store it in the image forever. -- MST