PSARC/2008/596 Block Tap Support for Solaris

[James Carlson]

Mark Johnson writes:
> > How do the Virtual Box people know to work with us if they need to
> > create a new disk image format?  Do we know or constrain their plans?
> 
> Yes, we are talking with them. We use the actual
> VirtualBox disk code to provide this support.
> Their code is very modular so it's relatively
> easy to keep in sync with their changes. Even if
> they add entirely new disk formats.
> 
> We do not constrain them in any way.
> 
> 
> 
> > If VMWare chooses to create a new file format (perhaps just to spite
> > Sun and xVM), does something here have to track the changes?
> 
> We are committing to what VMWare has documented in the
> 1.0 version of their spec. Any support for future
> version updates to their spec are to be determined.

OK; thanks.  That answers the questions I had.

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