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Re: [Qemu-devel] help with understanding qcow2 file format


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] help with understanding qcow2 file format
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 08:38:19 -0600
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On 09/17/2015 01:07 AM, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> 2015-09-16 16:46 GMT+03:00 Eric Blake <address@hidden>:
> 
>> qemu-img map file.qcow2
>>
>>
> Offset          Length          Mapped to       File
> qemu-img: File contains external, encrypted or compressed clusters.

qemu-img map --output=json file.qcow2

gives you a lot more information, although it still can't tell you how
to directly read compressed or encrypted clusters. (And we highly
recommend against using qcow2 encryption, because it is insecure by design)

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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