On Thursday, June 23 at 12:32 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
> On 06/23/11 07:15, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > > On Thursday, June 23 at 00:35 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said: > > > >> Oh, don't get me wrong, that's one reason I use qcow2 myself, but it's > >> either something he would have to deal with when he received it or the > >> conversion would increase the size of the disk image that would be > >> shipped to him. > > Yes, of course a raw image file will typically be bigger than a > > compressed qcow, just as an unpacked stage4..tar.bz2 file is going to be > > bigger than the original archive. But in terms transferability, > > compressed qcows are more efficient since they only include *used* > > blocks and they are compressed. I can convert the image into any of a > > number of formats, but the issue then is it will be bigger, and thus > > take me longer to upload it and the OP to download it > Yup, exactly :-) > I've uploaded a (390MB) vmdk. I've been told by someone that it works with vmware (not sure what version). This was build just a few minutes ago with the latest stage3 tarball and the latest portage snapshot. http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base.vmdk The root password is blank. It will force you to change it on first login.
