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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img |
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Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:03:01 +0100 |
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D. Schreiber schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to add "pipe"-Mode like this?
>
> dd if=/dev/sda | qemu-img convert -f raw - -O qcow2 newImage.img
>
> I know i can read directly from device, but in some cases (i.e. get data
> from netcat) it would be nice to convert from stdin. Alternative: read
> from fifo.
That shouldn't be too difficult to implement. It just needs someone to
do it.
> Another wish is to mount an compressed qcow-Image as loop-Device.
You can use qemu-nbd instead.
Kevin