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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: spetreolle@users.sourceforge.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:42:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061212174214.GA25284@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061212173322.5126.qmail@web26813.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 06:33:22PM +0100, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> > > > 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 ?

Probably not, but I think using nbd for it is much nicer.  I think
there would be trouble with partitionable devices, though.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-12 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-12 12:48 [Qemu-devel] NBD server for QEMU images Salvador Fandiño
2006-12-12 13:37 ` Martin Guy
2006-12-12 17:00   ` [Qemu-devel] " Salvador Fandino
2006-12-12 16:58     ` Paul Brook
2006-12-12 17:13       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-12-12 17:33         ` RE : " Sylvain Petreolle
2006-12-12 17:39           ` Paul Brook
2006-12-12 18:54             ` Anthony Liguori
2006-12-12 17:41           ` RE : " Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-12 17:42           ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-12-12 18:41             ` [Qemu-devel] Re: RE : " Salvador Fandino
2006-12-13 12:23               ` Jan Marten Simons
2006-12-13 19:03                 ` Salvador Fandino
2006-12-13 20:03                   ` Jim C. Brown
2006-12-13 22:07                     ` Salvador Fandino
2006-12-13 22:55                       ` Jim C. Brown
2006-12-14  8:37                         ` Salvador Fandino
2006-12-14 14:58                           ` Jim C. Brown
2006-12-12 19:00           ` Salvador Fandino
2006-12-12 17:45         ` [Qemu-devel] " Mark Williamson
2006-12-12 19:30         ` Christian MICHON
2006-12-12 15:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-12-12 17:32   ` Salvador Fandino
2006-12-12 20:13     ` Anthony Liguori
2006-12-13  2:14       ` Mark Williamson
2006-12-13 11:37       ` Avi Kivity
2006-12-13 13:19         ` Martin Guy
2006-12-13 13:29           ` Avi Kivity
2006-12-13 19:14             ` Salvador Fandino
2006-12-14  8:34               ` Avi Kivity
2006-12-13 16:58 ` [Qemu-devel] " Mulyadi Santosa
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-12 17:48 RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] " Paul Robinson

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