Zero data clusters are a space-efficient way of storing zeroed regions
of the image.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This adds a description of the qcow2 file format to the docs/ directory.
Besides documenting what's there, which is never wrong, the document should
provide a good basis for the discussion of format extensions (called "qcow3"
in previous discussions)
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Document how QEMU communicates with ACPI BIOS for PCI hotplug.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
For some reason the carets ('^') in the QED specification disappeared.
This patch puts them back.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
