I'm trying to access a qcow2 image via /dev/nbdX device.
I'm connecting a fedora 27 image (created using virt-builder) on a block
device:
qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 -f qcow2 -n --detect-zeroes=on --aio=native /dev/27837a03-64f9-4f2b-abb0-daa2195b01ae/acb196da-31fc-454d-856b-c31ab24715b3
It works, and I can read and write to the image via /dev/nbd0.
Disconnecting the device "works":
# qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0
/dev/nbd0 disconnected
But when trying to connect the image again, I get this error:
# qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd1 -f qcow2 -n --detect-zeroes=on --aio=native /dev/27837a03-64f9-4f2b-abb0-daa2195b01ae/acb196da-31fc-454d-856b-c31ab24715b3
Failed to set NBD socket
Disconnect client, due to: Unexpected end-of-file before all bytes were read
Turns out each time nbd devices is disconnected, it leaves the device
and all the partitions on it "connected":
# lsblk
...
nbd0 43:0 0 6G 0 disk
├─nbd0p1 43:1 0 1M 0 part
├─nbd0p2 43:2 0 1G 0 part
├─nbd0p3 43:3 0 615M 0 part
└─nbd0p4 43:4 0 4.4G 0 part
nbd1 43:32 0 6G 0 disk
├─nbd1p1 43:33 0 1M 0 part
├─nbd1p2 43:34 0 1G 0 part
├─nbd1p3 43:35 0 615M 0 part
└─nbd1p4 43:36 0 4.4G 0 part
I tried also to do:
kpartx -d /dev/nbd1
qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd1
But I get the same results.
Testing on Fedora 28:
kernel-4.17.2-200.fc28.x86_64
qemu-img-2.12.0-0.5.rc1.fc28.x86_64
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