From patchwork Tue Dec 17 18:41:46 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Jeff Cody X-Patchwork-Id: 302422 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [IPv6:2001:4830:134:3::11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C26492C009D for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 05:42:20 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost ([::1]:34943 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vszaz-000845-37 for incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:42:17 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60890) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vszaf-00083e-FA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:42:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VszaZ-0006cn-FY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:41:57 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:50032) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VszaZ-0006cd-60 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:41:51 -0500 Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id rBHIfmDS021105 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:41:49 -0500 Received: from localhost (ovpn-112-30.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.112.30]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id rBHIflNY029577 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:41:48 -0500 From: Jeff Cody To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:41:46 -0500 Message-Id: <4ce3097653ce4850e74efa9abb41561babfd38ee.1387305554.git.jcody@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.12 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com Subject: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-kvm PATCH] docs: updated qemu-img man page and qemu-doc to reflect VHDX support. X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+incoming=patchwork.ozlabs.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+incoming=patchwork.ozlabs.org@nongnu.org The man page for qemu-img, and the qemu-doc, did not mention VHDX as a supported format. This adds in reference to VHDX in those documents. Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil --- qemu-doc.texi | 15 +++++++++++++++ qemu-img.texi | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi index 185dd47..10b4ae9 100644 --- a/qemu-doc.texi +++ b/qemu-doc.texi @@ -654,6 +654,21 @@ Supported options: Specifies which VHD subformat to use. Valid options are @code{dynamic} (default) and @code{fixed}. @end table + +@item VHDX +Hyper-V compatible image format (VHDX). +Supported options: +@table @code +@item subformat +Specifies which VHDX subformat to use. Valid options are +@code{dynamic} (default) and @code{fixed}. +@item block_state_zero +Force use of payload blocks of type 'ZERO'. +@item block_size +Block Size; min 1MB, max 256MB. 0 means auto-calculate based on image size. +@item log_size +Log size; min 1MB. +@end table @end table @subsubsection Read-only formats diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi index be31191..1bba91e 100644 --- a/qemu-img.texi +++ b/qemu-img.texi @@ -431,8 +431,8 @@ This option can only be enabled if @code{compat=1.1} is specified. @item Other QEMU also supports various other image file formats for compatibility with -older QEMU versions or other hypervisors, including VMDK, VDI, VHD (vpc), qcow1 -and QED. For a full list of supported formats see @code{qemu-img --help}. +older QEMU versions or other hypervisors, including VMDK, VDI, VHD (vpc), VHDX, +qcow1 and QED. For a full list of supported formats see @code{qemu-img --help}. For a more detailed description of these formats, see the QEMU Emulation User Documentation.