Re: Support for virtual disk formats

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 04:44:58PM +0100, Mark Weinem wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> which virtual disk formats does Xen 3.3.x support?  And how well does it work?
> 
> Wikipedia.org states VMDK and VHD as natively supported formats:
> 
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_disk_image
> 
> But I could not find anything about the support in the Xen documentation nor 
> the Xen wiki. 

The disk format is a direct 1:1 mapping beteen disk blocks of the virtual
disk and blocks in the underlying file in dom0; there's no transformations,
not even an offset. I'm not sure which virtual disk "format" in the above
page this translates to.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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