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Re: [Xen-devel] Qcow2 support

To: Aravindh Puthiyaparambil <aravindh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Qcow2 support
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 21:34:58 +0300
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On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 11:26:59AM -0700, Aravindh Puthiyaparambil wrote:
>    Can someone tell me the status of qcow2 support existing today in Xen?
>    What (code changes, tools etc) needs to be done to get it working today? I
>    am trying to leverage it for use in VM snapshots. I was going through the
>    [1]Qcow Wiki and I see that it was last edited in 2007 so I am not sure
>    how current all that info is.
> 

I think the focus has been on VHD support instead, which also has snapshots,
and should work a lot better than qcow2, see:

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen4.0
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/blktap2

-- Pasi


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