On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 07:14:04PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:36:57PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Seekable xz/lzma compression instead of zlib/deflate. > > In qcow2, each [by default] 64K cluster is compressed independently.
... and I should say there's a 2-level tree at the start of the file which maps every cluster to a file offset, which is why ... > seeking is great, Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
