Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/4] parallels: add VIR_STORAGE_FILE_PLOOP format

On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 10:04:06PM +0400, Dmitry Guryanov wrote: > Add VIR_STORAGE_FILE_PLOOP format. This format is used > to store disk images for virtual machines in PCS and containers > in PCS, OpenVZ and also in Parallels Desktop for Mac. > > This format is described on OpenVZ site - > https://openvz.org/Ploop (together with ploop devices). It > consists of XML descriptor and one or more image files: base > image and deltas. Format of the image files described here: > https://openvz.org/Ploop/format. Hmm, so 'ploop' now refers to both a kernel device driver and also an image format ? I thought that historically 'ploop' was just a device driver, which in turn would support raw or qcow2, or <blah> image formats ?

Regards, Daniel