Features/QED
Status
- Base QED is in qemu.git since 2010-12-17 and will form part of QEMU 0.14.
- Zero cluster patches on mailing list, qemu-iotests under development.
- Upcoming image streaming patches are prepared.
Features
- Open specification
- Fully asynchronous I/O path
- Strong data integrity due to simple design
- Backing files
- Backing files may be smaller than the QED image
- Sparse files
- Retains sparseness over non-sparse channels (e.g. HTTP)