[vbox-dev] GUI feature request

Achim Hasenmueller achim at sun.com
Wed Sep 9 14:20:31 GMT 2009


I think they support random reads but not random writes. So using a  
snapshot on them, it could work.

Volunteers to implement that? Huihong?

Achim.

On Sep 9, 2009, at 13:36 , Christian Pötzsch wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Huihong Luo wrote:
>> For OVF import, I wonder if can add a checkbox to tell whether or not
>> clone the virtual disk. For large files, use it from original place  
>> is
> ideal
>
> this is not possible. The VMDK's used in the OVF export are in a
> compressed format. It is not possible to use that format for working
> with the VM's.
>
> Christian
>
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