mkimg may make severe load only to fail in the end
if output is non-seekable pipe, socket or FIFO
unless output format is raw disk image.
Check it out and fail early. Make it clear in the manual.
MFC after: 1 week
VHDX is the successor of Microsoft's VHD file format. It increases
maximum capacity of the virtual drive to 64TB and introduces features
to better handle power/system failures.
VHDX is the required format for 2nd generation Hyper-V VMs.
Reviewed by: marcel
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25184
Add a -C option to specify a maximum capacity for the final image file.
It is useful to control the size of the generated image for sdcard or
when we will add dynamic size partition.
Add --capacity which is a shorthand to define min and max capacity at
the same time.
Reviewed by: bapt, marcel, wblock (manpages)
Sponsored by: Gandi.net
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10509
those partitioning schemes that have this concept. Implement it as an
override for mbr's setting 0x80 in the flags for the first partition
when we have boot code.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4403
a capcity is given, no partitions are required. When no partitions are
given, no scheme needs to be specified either. This makes it possible
to create an entirely empty disk image. To add an empty partitioning
table, specify the scheme.
Bump the version to 20150222.
options. Bump the version number to 20140927.
While here, use explicit fputc() calls to skip a line in the output.
This to avoid having to hunt for extra '\n' characters in the printf
format strings.
MFC after: 1 week
Relnotes: yes
numbers or names. This gives more control over the actual layout and
helps to construct BSD disklabels with /usr or /var at dedicated
partitions.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, Inc.
MFC after: 3 days
Relnotes: yes
Add support for different output formats:
1. The output file that was previously written is now called the raw format.
2. Add the vmdk output format to create VMDK images.
When the format is not given, the raw output format is assumed.
