bhyve: Support for QCOW2 image format

[Marcel Moolenaar]

> On Aug 19, 2015, at 10:55 AM, anup shendkar <anupshendkar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 18-Aug-2015 9:35 PM, "Marcel Moolenaar" <marcel at xcllnt.net <mailto:marcel at xcllnt.net>> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On Aug 18, 2015, at 2:51 AM, anup shendkar <anupshendkar at gmail.com <mailto:anupshendkar at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org <mailto:grehan at freebsd.org>> wrote:
> > >> Hi Anup,
> > >>
> > >>> 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.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> The work was being done in a branch:
> > >>
> > >>    https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/marcel/libvdsk/ <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’ve not crossed that hurdle yet…
> 
> 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.

BTW: Shall I move this code to github for easy collaboration?

--
Marcel Moolenaar
marcel at xcllnt.net <mailto:marcel at xcllnt.net>



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