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

[Anthony Liguori]

Paul Brook wrote:
> > > > 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 ?
>
> qcow is an image format, not a filesystem.
> I'd guess it should be possible to use the device-mapper framework to do this. 
> I've ho idea how hard this is in practice.

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/DmUserspace

It will take a little time to get upstream though but it's actively 
being worked on.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paul