The man page for qemu-img, and the qemu-doc, did not mention VHDX
as a supported format. This adds in reference to VHDX in those
documents.
[Stefan Weil <
[email protected]> suggested s/Block Size/Block size/ for
consistency. I have made this change.
--Stefan]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
Specifies which VHD subformat to use. Valid options are
@code{dynamic} (default) and @code{fixed}.
@end table
+
+@item VHDX
+Hyper-V compatible image format (VHDX).
+Supported options:
+@table @code
+@item subformat
+Specifies which VHDX subformat to use. Valid options are
+@code{dynamic} (default) and @code{fixed}.
+@item block_state_zero
+Force use of payload blocks of type 'ZERO'.
+@item block_size
+Block size; min 1 MB, max 256 MB. 0 means auto-calculate based on image size.
+@item log_size
+Log size; min 1 MB.
+@end table
@end table
@subsubsection Read-only formats
@item Other
QEMU also supports various other image file formats for compatibility with
-older QEMU versions or other hypervisors, including VMDK, VDI, VHD (vpc), qcow1
-and QED. For a full list of supported formats see @code{qemu-img --help}.
+older QEMU versions or other hypervisors, including VMDK, VDI, VHD (vpc), VHDX,
+qcow1 and QED. For a full list of supported formats see @code{qemu-img --help}.
For a more detailed description of these formats, see the QEMU Emulation User
Documentation.