From: Michael McConnell <soruk@eridani.co.uk>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Base images
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:06:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4562DDA7.2000401@eridani.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611212058.52686.dvdr18@gmail.com>
David Roberts wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a couple of questions about creating images linked to base images:
> - `qemu-img commit` commits changes directly to the base image. Is there a way
> to create a new merged image with the changes so as not to change the
> original?
> - I noticed that images refer to their base image using an absolute path. Is
> there a way to change an image's base image reference? (for example when the
> base image is renamed / moved to a different directory)
qemu-img convert [-c] <changes-file> -O qcow <new-base-file>
should do what you want.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-21 11:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-21 10:58 [Qemu-devel] Base images David Roberts
2006-11-21 11:06 ` Michael McConnell [this message]
2006-11-22 5:27 ` David Roberts
2006-11-22 8:48 ` Michael McConnell
2006-11-21 11:17 ` Eric Hameleers
2006-11-21 11:23 ` David Roberts
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2006-11-23 19:16 Don Kitchen
2006-11-23 19:17 Don Kitchen
2006-11-23 23:25 ` Michael McConnell
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