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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 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 needed for certain use cases and certain output formats and therefore it is
not performed by default. 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