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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:27:09 +0100
From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] NBD isn't used by qemu-img,	so don't
	link qemu-img against NBD objects
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To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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On 11/22/10 15:15, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 22.11.2010 15:08, schrieb Jes Sorensen:
>> I am aware of that, but what on earth is qemu-img doing with NBD in the
>> first place? Doesn't make much sense to me.
> 
> The same as it's doing with file, host_device or http: Accessing images.
> Start an NBD server (e.g. with qemu-nbd) and try something like qemu
> -hda nbd:localhost. This is how you use the nbd block driver.

Well ok, seems a really backwards way to try and shoot yourself in the
foot, but ok, maybe I should redo the patch to simply allow compiling
NBD out instead.

Cheers,
Jes