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Add documentation of output formats for users

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A blurb on output formats is useful for our users.

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Gregory Haynes 2015-08-02 23:18:30 -07:00
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@ -40,3 +40,17 @@ Other elements modify our image in some way. The 'vm' element in our example
above ensures that our image has a bootloader properly installed. This is only
needed for certain use cases and certain output formats and therefore it is
not performed by default.
Output Formats
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By default a qcow2 image is created by the disk-image-create command. Other
output formats may be specified using the `-t <format>` argument. Multiple
output formats can also be specified by comma separation. The supported output
formats are:
* qcow2
* tar
* vhd
* docker
* raw