[Libguestfs] [Qemu-devel] [qemu-img] support for XVA

[Max Reitz]

On 2017-11-15 21:06, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
> 2017-11-15 20:59 GMT+01:00 Max Reitz <mreitz at redhat.com>:
>> Well, you can't just add support to qemu-img alone either.  Every image
>> format supported by qemu-img is one supported by qemu as a whole and
>> thus needs a proper block driver that needs to support random accesses
>> as well.
> 
> I was talking about qemu-img convert, just to convert an XVA image to
> something different, in a single pass, without having to extract the
> tar.

I know, but that doesn't work.  qemu-img convert uses the normal
general-purpose block drivers for that.

Max

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