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