Does anyone use the FreeBSD VM qcow2 images

Roman Bogorodskiy novel at FreeBSD.org
Wed Sep 10 17:20:29 UTC 2014


  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.

Roman Bogorodskiy
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