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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img


From: Jamie Lokier
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:52:27 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 06:15:57PM +0100, D. Schreiber wrote:
> > is it possible to add "pipe"-Mode like this?
> > 
> > dd if=/dev/sda | qemu-img convert -f raw - -O qcow2 newImage.img
> 
> Does this work:
> 
> dd if=/dev/sda | qemu-img convert -f raw <(dd if=/dev/sda) -O qcow2 
> newImage.img

No point running dd twice at the same time :-)

I suspect you meant one of these:

dd if=/dev/sda | qemu-img convert -f raw /dev/stdin -O qcow2 newImage.img

qemu-img convert -f raw <(dd if=/dev/sda) -O qcow2 newImage.img

-- Jamie




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