Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

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.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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