Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-kvm PATCH] docs: updated qemu-img man page and qemu-doc to reflect VHDX support.

[Jeff Cody]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 07:51:49PM +0100, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Am 17.12.2013 19:41, schrieb Jeff Cody:
> > The man page for qemu-img, and the qemu-doc, did not mention VHDX
> > as a supported format.  This adds in reference to VHDX in those
> > documents.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  qemu-doc.texi | 15 +++++++++++++++
> >  qemu-img.texi |  4 ++--
> >  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi
> > index 185dd47..10b4ae9 100644
> > --- a/qemu-doc.texi
> > +++ b/qemu-doc.texi
> > @@ -654,6 +654,21 @@ Supported options:
> >  Specifies which VHD subformat to use. Valid options are
> >  @code{dynamic} (default) and @code{fixed}.
> >  @end table
> > +
> > address@hidden VHDX
> > +Hyper-V compatible image format (VHDX).
> > +Supported options:
> > address@hidden @code
> > address@hidden subformat
> > +Specifies which VHDX subformat to use. Valid options are
> > address@hidden (default) and @code{fixed}.
> > address@hidden block_state_zero
> > +Force use of payload blocks of type 'ZERO'.
> > address@hidden block_size
> > +Block Size; min 1MB, max 256MB.  0 means auto-calculate based on image 
> > size.
> 
> Please add blanks: 1 MB, max 256 MB.
> 
> > address@hidden log_size
> > +Log size; min 1MB.
> 
> 1 MB
>

OK, thanks.

> > address@hidden table
> >  @end table
> >  
> >  @subsubsection Read-only formats
> > diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi
> > index be31191..1bba91e 100644
> > --- a/qemu-img.texi
> > +++ b/qemu-img.texi
> > @@ -431,8 +431,8 @@ This option can only be enabled if @code{compat=1.1} is 
> > specified.
> >  
> >  @item Other
> >  QEMU also supports various other image file formats for compatibility with
> > -older QEMU versions or other hypervisors, including VMDK, VDI, VHD (vpc), 
> > qcow1
> > -and QED. For a full list of supported formats see @code{qemu-img --help}.
> > +older QEMU versions or other hypervisors, including VMDK, VDI, VHD (vpc), 
> > VHDX,
> > +qcow1 and QED. For a full list of supported formats see @code{qemu-img 
> > --help}.
> >  For a more detailed description of these formats, see the QEMU Emulation 
> > User
> >  Documentation.
> 
> Otherwise okay. I appreciate efforts to improve the documentation.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <address@hidden>
>