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and subject line Re: vmdebootstrap: Support qcow2 images
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Package: vmdebootstrap
Version: 0.2-1
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
Please consider adding an option, or even defaulting to, qcow2 instead
of raw images. They are much more compact and support snapshots,
compression, and encryption.
Thanks,
Martin
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Hey Petter,
Petter Reinholdtsen [2014-03-14 7:15 +0100]:
> Why do you need vmdebootstrap to create qcow2 images? Why not use
> qemu-img convert after the build to create it instead? Neither
> kpartx, mkfs nor mount used by vmdebootstrap can work with qcow2
> images as far as I know, so I doubt vmdebootstrap can be changed to
> work natively with qcow2, and thus the only solution would be for
> vmdebootstrap to do this conversion too.
Ah, thanks. In this case I'd just call qemu-img manually after
vmdebootstrap. Closing bug then.
Martin
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