20 Jun
2017
20 Jun
'17
2:55 p.m.
On Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:04:53 CEST Pavel Butsykin wrote:
I noticed that raw is intentionally used as image format for appliance image. So I would like to ask, is there any reason to use raw as image format for appliance?
In addition to what Rich already said, there are a couple of points: a) a raw image is generally always faster, since it is a direct bit-by-bit representation of the disk b) because (a), raw is generally more universally understood; the UML backend (not much tested these days) supports only raw disks (which include the appliance), since that's what the kernel can handle -- Pino Toscano