From owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Thu Aug 20 06:59:13 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F1689BE424 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 06:59:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anupshendkar@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-x22e.google.com (mail-wi0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::22e]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D9D533AB; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 06:59:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anupshendkar@gmail.com) Received: by wijp15 with SMTP id p15so7122678wij.0; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 23:59:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=R2QfU8a5OO4gApnz/BcjyY6R2/75SpqWfmV79xU+vjI=; b=ryIPSYWvRc0Q6m+O0n3r433dEO4wtO7/3Yu+xyxHryMJlqmIkYaGTvga0XJ+LQg+JP yxYdZMLZ9mifre28NI+DvInZekyX9ILB/nz3Qo0l+41RtBIVmAhwU0bfCdYTu6NagASl Q1t8HefDpTNP2lNMLL24eIk740uxJfZsZB1gPNt+SVdj2FgZl9X8d+SbKojsvSsH1wpV sLc2WP4JkKqjTzB4apJq+k+N8qMzuTvrXZt2LBZDY1SOXbD9gpDVcavFnAll+i4E72nA 9Fpqv8tvK1otfC/GGhWbOgU6fm0DVZmITQn1+uG3+l5oI8S/dH08VlhVvK1jaLfrRQTL ZuRg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.12.148 with SMTP id y20mr58604729wib.80.1440053951113; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 23:59:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.28.186.134 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 23:59:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <56AD7CEE-9878-41C0-AACA-543CA7E13F49@xcllnt.net> References: <55D181A2.8070502@freebsd.org> <7E0B1B98-8408-41C6-930B-133DC269311C@xcllnt.net> <56AD7CEE-9878-41C0-AACA-543CA7E13F49@xcllnt.net> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 12:29:11 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: bhyve: Support for QCOW2 image format From: anup shendkar To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org, Peter Grehan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 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: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 06:59:13 -0000 On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Marcel Moolenaar wrot= e: > > On Aug 19, 2015, at 10:55 AM, anup shendkar wrot= e: > > > On 18-Aug-2015 9:35 PM, "Marcel Moolenaar" wrote: >> >> >> > On Aug 18, 2015, at 2:51 AM, anup shendkar >> > wrote: >> > >> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Peter Grehan >> > wrote: >> >> Hi Anup, >> >> >> >>> Please let me know if anybody has any information on it. I got to kn= ow >> >>> from IRC channel that work is in progress for generic framework to >> >>> support various image file formats for bhyve. >> >> >> >> >> >> The work was being done in a branch: >> >> >> >> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/marcel/libvdsk/ >> >> >> > >> > Hi Marcel, >> > >> > I went through above branch. There are place-holder files containing >> > stub functions defined for qcow, vhd, vmdk image format support. I >> > would like to work on supporting qcow image format. It would be nice >> > if you could push your latest changes to the branch. That would be >> > helpful to get me started. >> >> Everything is already on the branch. Getting it hooked up with >> bhyve was my priority, but we=E2=80=99ve not crossed that hurdle yet=E2= =80=A6 > > Thanks Marcel. Will continue from your branch. Thanks again. > > Things may change significantly in how libvdsk is used with bhyve. > My advice is to focus on the internal plumbing of libvdsk and not > so much on its integration with bhyve. > Yes definitely. Initially I am planning to focus on "libvdsk/libvdsk/qcow.c" and make it working with bhyve. > BTW: Shall I move this code to github for easy collaboration? > Yes. As you said, that would make collaboration easier. Thanks, Anup > -- > Marcel Moolenaar > marcel@xcllnt.net > > >