Mark Johnson writes: > > How do the Virtual Box people know to work with us if they need to > > create a new disk image format? Do we know or constrain their plans? > > Yes, we are talking with them. We use the actual > VirtualBox disk code to provide this support. > Their code is very modular so it's relatively > easy to keep in sync with their changes. Even if > they add entirely new disk formats. > > We do not constrain them in any way. > > > > > If VMWare chooses to create a new file format (perhaps just to spite > > Sun and xVM), does something here have to track the changes? > > We are committing to what VMWare has documented in the > 1.0 version of their spec. Any support for future > version updates to their spec are to be determined.
OK; thanks. That answers the questions I had. -- 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
