bhyve: Support for QCOW2 image format

[anup shendkar]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 19, 2015, at 11:59 PM, anup shendkar <anupshendkar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> BTW: Shall I move this code to github for easy collaboration?
>>>
>> Yes. As you said, that would make collaboration easier.
>
> https://github.com/xcllnt/libvdsk
>
> Sources contain libdisk, bhyve and bhyveload.
> bhyve is up-to-date with -current and it’s functional for raw disks.
> You can therefore build and install this version of bhyve and have
> it use libvdsk already.
>
> When working on libvdsk, please make sure raw disks are not broken,
> as it’s our baseline.
>
> For example: if you use a QCOW disk (once you have enough support)
> and you get a kernel panic, boot the same kernel from a raw disk to
> see if it’s the kernel or the QCOW disk.
>
> Have fun!
>
Thanks Marcel. Thanks for your clear directions. With all this is in
place, I hope I will be ready with QCOW image support soon.

Regards,
Anup
> --
> Marcel Moolenaar
> marcel at xcllnt.net
>



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anup shendkar