On Thursday 08 May 2014 10:43:41 Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 10:04:06PM +0400, Dmitry Guryanov wrote: > > Add VIR_STORAGE_FILE_PLOOP format. This format is used > > to store disk images for virtual machines in PCS and containers > > in PCS, OpenVZ and also in Parallels Desktop for Mac. > > > > This format is described on OpenVZ site - > > https://openvz.org/Ploop (together with ploop devices). It > > consists of XML descriptor and one or more image files: base > > image and deltas. Format of the image files described here: > > https://openvz.org/Ploop/format. > > Hmm, so 'ploop' now refers to both a kernel device driver > and also an image format ? I thought that historically > 'ploop' was just a device driver, which in turn would > support raw or qcow2, or <blah> image formats ? >
Yes, you're right, we don't have any separate name for image format, so in man pages it's called ploop1 or expanded. Now ploop devices support only raw and ploop images. > Regards, > Daniel -- Dmitry Guryanov -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list