From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QZZUV-0004Jb-T1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 02:18:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5881B1C032; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 02:14:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com (out5.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18DD61C032 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 02:14:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.44]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0631B20D8F for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:14:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:14:46 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=subject:from:to:date:in-reply-to:references:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:mime-version; s=smtpout; bh=+0MU7iRu75vzjCdKDDvknotFVgs=; b=gOwiw+CHZZ1KCUrV/Ja9h07T/WDckm5shOK4oQ+km6aSmODf/8uawonYRxxvy8ExDAOSLnrH6zfSGd59hk6c8863KfvzGTsumHN8RcVep6JRm9/OvCLXHMQefOzG+5ei+HgoTjupA9gp4Jo4u2cDROaz/aWmWui0MvGTdAx61CU= X-Sasl-enc: MCLxG43yN1v29TEOQHsvb10/6s4x7uFuabcpm0B/eFhS 1308795285 Received: from [192.168.31.28] (cpe-174-109-037-078.nc.res.rr.com [174.109.37.78]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B5E63441B98 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:14:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:14:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4E029765.9060903@gmail.com> References: <87k4cdcz55.fsf@newsguy.com> <1308787916.71397.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4E029765.9060903@gmail.com> Face: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1308795285.71397.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1054e9a18aa033785c1dba9cfa87528a On Wednesday, June 22 at 21:31 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said: > > The stage4 > > (excluding portage) would be ~90MB (bz2). The disk image (compressed > > QCOW is about 120MB) > > The only issue with qcow2 is that in order to use it with VB, IIRC you > need to convert it to raw before you can import it. Perhaps, but it's trivial to convert qcows to other formats.