Re: [Qemu-devel] disk image: self-organized format or raw file

[Xingbo Wu]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

On 08/12/2014 08:14 AM, 吴兴博 wrote:
>>> However FVD seems to have been ignored by community.
>>
>> Care to give a pointer to a URL describing the FVD format?
>>
>> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-01/msg00398.html
>
> This thread could be the clearest message on FVD.

That very message also points out WHY the community has appeared to
ignore FVD:

"For any feature to be seriously considered for inclusion in QEMU,
patches need to be posted to the mailing list against the latest git
tree. That's a pre-requisite for any real discussion."

> It also has a paper published on USENIX conference.
> https://www.usenix.org/event/atc11/tech/final_files/Tang.pdf

Thanks for the references.  Are you interested in posting patches to
revive the work on that format?

I'm going to study it first. It would take some time :)

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Cheers!
       吴兴博  Wu, Xingbo <address@hidden>