From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@suse.de>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:03:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49954555.1050403@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1234458957.3827.9.camel@TuxBox.mobab>
D. Schreiber schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to add "pipe"-Mode like this?
>
> dd if=/dev/sda | qemu-img convert -f raw - -O qcow2 newImage.img
>
> I know i can read directly from device, but in some cases (i.e. get data
> from netcat) it would be nice to convert from stdin. Alternative: read
> from fifo.
That shouldn't be too difficult to implement. It just needs someone to
do it.
> Another wish is to mount an compressed qcow-Image as loop-Device.
You can use qemu-nbd instead.
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-13 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-12 17:15 [Qemu-devel] qemu-img D. Schreiber
2009-02-13 10:03 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2009-02-13 14:27 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-02-13 15:52 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-02-13 16:42 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-02-13 19:09 ` [Qemu-devel] qemu-img D. Schreiber
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