convert to branched qcow2
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2023 6:35 am
Hi there,
I was wondering if you had any ideas about converting an existing wim file, with, say three images with plenty of files in common, to three qcow2 files, where one file is the base image and the other two "branch off" from it, similarly to how VMware does linked clones.
One wim image would be deployed onto one qcow2 image, then you could create a linked qcow2 clone with qemu-img. If the second wim image has plenty of files in common with the first, will this be reflected in the linked qcow2 clone? Does wimapply work like that? If I deploy a second wim image on top of an existing partition, will it leave the files that are the same untouched?
I was wondering if you had any ideas about converting an existing wim file, with, say three images with plenty of files in common, to three qcow2 files, where one file is the base image and the other two "branch off" from it, similarly to how VMware does linked clones.
One wim image would be deployed onto one qcow2 image, then you could create a linked qcow2 clone with qemu-img. If the second wim image has plenty of files in common with the first, will this be reflected in the linked qcow2 clone? Does wimapply work like that? If I deploy a second wim image on top of an existing partition, will it leave the files that are the same untouched?