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Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] raw-posix: add 'offset' and 'size'


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] raw-posix: add 'offset' and 'size' options
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 13:20:34 +0200
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On 03/10/2016 12:47, Tomáš Golembiovský wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 11:20:44 +0200
> Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On 03/10/2016 10:52, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 09:13:29PM +0200, Tomáš Golembiovský wrote:  
>>>> Added two new options 'offset' and 'size'. This makes it possible to use
>>>> only part of the file as a device. This can be used e.g. to limit the
>>>> access only to single partition in a disk image or use a disk inside a
>>>> tar archive (like OVA).
>>>>
>>>> For now this is only possible for files in read-only mode. It should be
>>>> possible to extend it later to allow read-write mode, but would probably
>>>> require that the size of the device is kept constant (i.e. no resizing).
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Tomáš Golembiovský <address@hidden>
>>>> ---
>>>>  block/raw-posix.c | 97 
>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>>>>  1 file changed, 91 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)  
>>>
>>> An equivalent change is needed to raw-win32.c  
>>
>> Actually, it should be done _only_ in block/raw_bsd.c.
> 
> You mean in raw-posix.c and in raw_bsd.c, or just raw_bsd.c?

Just raw_bsd.c.

Paolo



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