Support conversion of virtual disk files from format A to format B
Support in-stream conversion of a virtual disk file in format A to format B.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Thierry Carrez
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Jay Pipes
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Obsolete
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Not started
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- Mark Washenberger
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Most popular conversion needs:
any disk format -> raw
raw -> any disk format
VMDK, VHD -> raw
raw -> VMDK, VHD
VDI is a last option...
Important:
New db model needed to store what hypervisors the image is able to be run on. Reasoning: image creator needs to include drivers for certain hypervisors...
Jordan: Further discussion it looks likw qcow and vhd diff's might be useful too and the ability to merge them. I am not sure if you can do it with qcow but with a vhd you can merge a difference disk with a parent disk so having some functionality where you could upload a disk as a child of another disk and merge them down to a single disk (you can do this via WMI calls on Hyper-V.. i.e. you would have to offload to the host) would be cool - def a wishlist item though.
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* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
