[libvirt] [PATCH 1/4] parallels: add VIR_STORAGE_FILE_PLOOP format

[Dmitry Guryanov]

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

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Dmitry Guryanov