[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Improve qemu-img dd

[Eric Blake]

I was trying to test NBD fleecing by copying subsets of one
file to another, and had the idea to use:

$ export NBD drive to be fleeced on port 10809
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 copy $size
$ qemu-nbd -f qcow2 -p 10810 copy
$ qemu-img dd -f raw -O raw if=nbd://localhost:10809 of=nbd://localhost:10810 \
    skip=$offset seek=$offset count=$((len/cluster)) bs=$cluster

except that seek= wasn't implemented. And in implementing that,
I learned that skip= is broken when combined with count=.

[In the meantime, I had to use:

$ export NBD drive to be fleeced on port 10809
$ modprobe nbd
$ qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 -f raw nbd://localhost:10809
$ qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd1 -f qcow2 copy
$ dd if=/dev/nbd0 of/dev/nbd1 \
    skip=$offset seek=$offset count=$((len/cluster)) bs=$cluster

to get the behavior I needed (basically, create an empty qcow2
destination file, then plug in the guest-visible data based on
the subsets of the disk of my choosing, by reading the block
status/dirty bitmap over NBD).  But bouncing through three
NBD client/server pairs just so I can use plain 'dd' instead
of just two pairs with 'qemu-img dd' feels dirty.
]

Eric Blake (2):
  qemu-img: Fix dd with skip= and count=
  qemu-img: Add dd seek= option

 qemu-img.c                 |  76 ++++++----
 tests/qemu-iotests/160     |  15 +-
 tests/qemu-iotests/160.out | 344 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 397 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

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