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[Qemu-devel] Re: RE : Re: Re: NBD server for QEMU images
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Salvador Fandino |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: RE : Re: Re: NBD server for QEMU images |
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Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:41:00 +0100 |
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Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 06:33:22PM +0100, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
>>>>> It's mostly intended to be used for accessing the files inside QEMU disk
>>>>> images locally, without having to launch a virtual machine and accessing
>>>>> then from there.
>>>> mount -o loop does this.
>>> How is everybody missing the point? :-) mount -o loop doesn't mount
>>> qcow images.
>>>
>> Would be that difficult to write a qcow fs module ?
>
> Probably not, but I think using nbd for it is much nicer. I think
> there would be trouble with partitionable devices, though.
right now, you can use "-o offset" and "-s size" to serve a partition
inside a partitioned disk image. And you can use fdisk or a similar tool
to examine the partition table (they work on /dev/nbd0).
I am also looking for some working code to parse the MBR to incorporate
it in qemu-nbds (something as libparted but simpler), so it would be
possible to just indicate the partition number to serve.
- Salva
- [Qemu-devel] NBD server for QEMU images, Salvador Fandiño, 2006/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] NBD server for QEMU images, Martin Guy, 2006/12/12
- [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images, Salvador Fandino, 2006/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images, Paul Brook, 2006/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2006/12/12
- RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images, Sylvain Petreolle, 2006/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images, Paul Brook, 2006/12/12
- [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images, Anthony Liguori, 2006/12/12
- Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images, Johannes Schindelin, 2006/12/12
- Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2006/12/12
- [Qemu-devel] Re: RE : Re: Re: NBD server for QEMU images,
Salvador Fandino <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: RE : Re: Re: NBD server for QEMU images, Jan Marten Simons, 2006/12/13
- [Qemu-devel] Re: RE : Re: Re: NBD server for QEMU images, Salvador Fandino, 2006/12/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: RE : Re: Re: NBD server for QEMU images, Jim C. Brown, 2006/12/13
- [Qemu-devel] Re: RE : Re: Re: NBD server for QEMU images, Salvador Fandino, 2006/12/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: RE : Re: Re: NBD server for QEMU images, Jim C. Brown, 2006/12/13
- [Qemu-devel] Re: RE : Re: Re: NBD server for QEMU images, Salvador Fandino, 2006/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: RE : Re: Re: NBD server for QEMU images, Jim C. Brown, 2006/12/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: RE : Re: Re: NBD server for QEMU images, Salvador Fandino, 2006/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images, Mark Williamson, 2006/12/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images, Christian MICHON, 2006/12/12