bhyve: Support for QCOW2 image format

[anup shendkar]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net> wrote:
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> On Aug 19, 2015, at 10:55 AM, anup shendkar <anupshendkar at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 18-Aug-2015 9:35 PM, "Marcel Moolenaar" <marcel at xcllnt.net> wrote:
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>> > On Aug 18, 2015, at 2:51 AM, anup shendkar <anupshendkar at gmail.com>
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>> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Hi Anup,
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>> >>> Please let me know if anybody has any information on it. I got to know
>> >>> from IRC channel that work is in progress for generic framework to
>> >>> support various image file formats for bhyve.
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>> >> The work was being done in a branch:
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>> >>    https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/marcel/libvdsk/
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>> > Hi Marcel,
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>> > 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.
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>> Everything is already on the branch. Getting it hooked up with
>> bhyve was my priority, but we’ve not crossed that hurdle yet…
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> Thanks Marcel. Will continue from your branch. Thanks again.
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> 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.
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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?
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Yes. As you said, that would make collaboration easier.

Thanks,
Anup
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