On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 11:12:15AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > IOW, what are valid values for backing_fmt? "raw" and "qed" are obvious > but what does it mean from a formal specification perspective to have > "vmdk"? Is that VMDK v3 or v4, what if there's a v5?
It might be better to just use a uint16_t field for the backing format, where each valid format gets a bit position assigned. For now just raw, qed and qcow2 would be enough.
