From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NvqOK-0004wl-JE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:10:52 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43004 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvqOJ-0004rV-Br for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:10:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvqGY-0004m6-L4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:02:51 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:43985) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvqGY-0004ln-74 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:02:50 -0400 Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:02:48 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img: add FUSE-based image access Message-ID: <20100328110248.GA9094@lst.de> References: <4BABA2FB.8050505@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BABA2FB.8050505@web.de> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jan Kiszka Cc: qemu-devel On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 06:52:59PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: > This adds the "map" subcommand to qemu-img. It is able to expose the raw > content of a disk image via a FUSE filesystem. Both the whole disk can > be accessed, e.g. to run partitioning tools against it, as well as > individual partitions. This allows to create new filesystems in the > image or loop-back mount exiting ones. Using the great mountlo tool > from the FUSE collection [1][2], the latter can even be done by non-root > users (the former anyway). Is there a good reason to throw this into qemu-img instead of making a separate qemu-fuse or similar tool? It's doing something quite different than the rest of qemu-img.