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


From: Paul Robinson
Subject: RE: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:48:27 -0000

> > > > > 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 ?
>
> It would be _more_ difficult. Although I would have done it as a FUSE
module, just to learn how to do it.

Fuse can do one half of the job and you might want to look at
http://www.smallworks.com/~jim/fsimage/  dated 23-Feb-2005
It's a program to copy files from various types of disk image. (I
haven't tried it).
I found it at
http://www.kidsquid.com/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

Cheers,
Paul R.




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