Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img: add FUSE-based image access

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 06:52:59PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> This adds the "map" subcommand to qemu-img. It is able to expose the raw
> content of a disk image via a FUSE filesystem. Both the whole disk can
> be accessed, e.g. to run partitioning tools against it, as well as
> individual partitions. This allows to create new filesystems in the
> image or loop-back mount exiting ones. Using the great mountlo tool
> from the FUSE collection [1][2], the latter can even be done by non-root
> users (the former anyway).

Is there a good reason to throw this into qemu-img instead of making
a separate qemu-fuse or similar tool?  It's doing something quite
different than the rest of qemu-img.