Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

[Matthew Finkel]

On 06/23/11 07:15, Albert Hopkins wrote:
>
> On Thursday, June 23 at 00:35 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
>
>> Oh, don't get me wrong, that's one reason I use qcow2 myself, but it's
>> either something he would have to deal with when he received it or the
>> conversion would increase the size of the disk image that would be
>> shipped to him.
> Yes, of course a raw image file will typically be bigger than a
> compressed qcow, just as an unpacked stage4..tar.bz2 file is going to be
> bigger than the original archive.  But in terms transferability,
> compressed qcows are more efficient since they only include *used*
> blocks and they are compressed.  I can convert the image into any of a
> number of formats, but the issue then is it will be bigger, and thus
> take me longer to upload it and the OP to download it
Yup, exactly :-)