From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 10 19:49:54 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 319DDDC6; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:49:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-x229.google.com (mail-lb0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::229]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 55D80319; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:49:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f169.google.com with SMTP id p9so10499558lbv.14 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:49:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=R/RGr7WabmDunYHlg9BYqdJoF2znlUlmWslUshzG7L8=; b=XqSGw1DLCGcRNUcSBISpos/XLSg/CPGilPXh/YkhbIW63ahqARHuoEh14DOVKDoHFx y0TKEKSkQBHFKt2FBVhDvngGmNwzyGwarQ5eoWd8ze1KDkYGecyhSCK5HLSNmFshVXd/ Id9e7yzCgj/HIuYC/L7hKR7DcpZL1P6tb1Z/6TtFdtMpaT/xh2/vG2KrI8vsH+lurxzO 9W3KWTp5YxRJQWIaVVLN4RLC8bhiFiIrXToshpHuAJm3lLRP2V1vr1Z+8SRqfvG/jnci d/Kq6sx3Mof8vZT0ktIBsY/eMpb2xMF0EqtxLzrHRd3SkdWBjQ6OGo/FHRXusEvj7gPz B+eQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.149.133 with SMTP id ua5mr41676744lbb.40.1410378591106; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:49:51 -0700 (PDT) Sender: crodr001@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.22.72 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:49:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140910171827.GA1287@kloomba> References: <20140910135251.GF48287@hub.FreeBSD.org> <20140910171827.GA1287@kloomba> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:49:51 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: xJ5s_j0hgpnUb8ml3otgcVSi8V0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Does anyone use the FreeBSD VM qcow2 images From: Craig Rodrigues To: Roman Bogorodskiy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: Glen Barber , "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:49:54 -0000 On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote: > Glen Barber wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm talking about the images available here: > > > > http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/ > > > > Since mkimg(1) in head/ and stable/10 supports VMDK and VHD formats, > > I would prefer to remove the need to use qemu-img to generate the VM > > images. > > > > This would mean that the qcow2 format would no longer be produced. > > The qcow2 image format is very popular among Linux KVM/qemu-kvm users, > maybe the most popular even. > > So I think it'd be useful to keep producing these images. > > Hi, That may be true, but I don't think that we as the FreeBSD project need to produce qcow2 images. We also provide raw disk, VMDK , and VDI images. The raw disk and VMDK images can easily be converted to qcow2 via the qemu-img program. For example: http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/content/ch_converting.html -- Craig