[libvirt] [PATCH 1/4] parallels: add VIR_STORAGE_FILE_PLOOP format
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Thu May 8 09:43:41 UTC 2014
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 ?
Regards,
Daniel
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