XCP: support vhdx format for VDI

Microsoft has released the open specification of vhdx format with these improvements....this could greatly help in VM performance improvements:

Support up to 16TB size
Support larger block file size
improved performance
improved corruption resistance

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34750

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maruti srinivas shared this idea · Nov 1, 2012 · Admin →

planned ·

AdminGeorge Dunlap (Staff Software Engineer, Xen.org Open-source Hypervisor) responded · Dec 18, 2012

Planned eventually; no target release yet.

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Mike McClurg commented · December 18, 2012 3:41 p.m. · Delete

I talked with the storage team, and they do plan on eventually switching to this format. But we don't have any timeline for that yet. The greater than 2TB disk size is a nice feature to have.
maruti srinivas commented · December 12, 2012 6:08 p.m. · Delete

XCP is preferred
AdminGeorge Dunlap (Staff Software Engineer, Xen.org Open-source Hypervisor) commented · November 28, 2012 4:38 p.m. · Delete

maruti, are you asking for support from open-source Xen, or from XCP / XenServer?

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XCP: support vhdx format for VDI

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