Am 17.11.2015 um 18:05 hat John Snow geschrieben: > Still the subject of debate on-list, but the thought is roughly this: > > Bitmaps will be able to flush-to-file on close. (If they have no > persistence data, it's a no-op (maybe.)) This might mean being flushed > to their own BDS -- the one they are describing -- as a qcow2 extension. > Or, it could be to an arbitrary new standalone file format designed for > the sole purpose of containing bitmap data. > > The discussion hasn't progressed beyond "Max and Kevin do not think > storing arbitrary bitmaps in .qcow2 files is a good idea." The logical > conclusion is "We need a new standalone format, then" but we haven't > decided what that format will look like or how it will be used.
I think the actual logical conclusion is that you use qcow2 images in order to use the feature. Kevin