Mark Johnson writes: > James Carlson wrote: > > Artem Kachitchkine writes: > >> This fasttrack delivers a new virtual disk backend driver for Solaris > >> which is capable of reading & writing VMWare native (vmdk), VirtualBox > >> native (vdi), and raw disk files. See the sister vdiskadm fasttrack for > >> information on how to create and manage these file based virtual disks. > > > > Does this project depend on 'vdiskadm'? Does that other project > > depend on this one? > > blktap does have a dependency on vdiskadm, but can > operate without it. blktap is specific to Xen. > > vdiskadm does not have any dependencies on blktap or > xVM. It can be leveraged by other efforts (as blktap > did). There aren't any other projects leveraging > vdiskadm today.
Would vdiskadm be a useful addition to the system if blktap never integrates? (What would it do?) > > I'd much rather see the whole project described in a single ARC case, > > if that's at all possible. > > If you feel strongly about it, we can do that... What > would be the next step for us? No, I don't feel strongly about it. I just think it's less confusing to see one case that sets out the whole project than a series of tiny interconnected cases that are intended to be worked together. > >> 4.3. Interfaces > > > > What about the VMWare native and Virtual Box native disk file formats? > > Yes, I will add this in. I'll wait to hear back about the merge > before sending out an update. OK. I'm mostly curious about the stability level of those formats. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
