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Re: [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?

From: Dr. David Alan Gilbert
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 15:06:46 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.9.5 (2018-04-13) 
* Markus Armbruster (address@hidden) 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
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