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Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?
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Richard W.M. Jones |
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Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images? |
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Mon, 28 May 2018 22:20:54 +0100 |
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On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 08:38:33PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Just accessing the image file within a tar archive is possible and we
> could write a block driver for that (I actually think we should do
> this), but it restricts you because certain operations like resizing
> aren't really possible in tar. Unfortunately, resizing is a really
> common operation for non-raw image formats.
We do this already in virt-v2v (using file.offset and file.size
parameters in the raw driver).
For virt-v2v we only need to read the source so resizing isn't an
issue. For most of the cases we're talking about the downloaded image
would also be a template / base image, so I suppose only reading would
be required too.
I also wrote an nbdkit tar file driver (supports writes, but not
resizing).
https://manpages.debian.org/testing/nbdkit-plugin-perl/nbdkit-tar-plugin.1.en.html
Rich.
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- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?, (continued)
Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?, Max Reitz, 2018/05/28
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?, Richard W.M. Jones, 2018/05/28
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?, Kevin Wolf, 2018/05/28
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?, Max Reitz, 2018/05/28
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?, Kevin Wolf, 2018/05/28
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?, Max Reitz, 2018/05/29
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?, Kevin Wolf, 2018/05/29
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?, Eduardo Habkost, 2018/05/29
Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?,
Richard W.M. Jones <=
Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?, Richard W.M. Jones, 2018/05/28
Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?, Kevin Wolf, 2018/05/29
Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?, Max Reitz, 2018/05/29