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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:13:40 -0500
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images
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On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 04:58:32PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 December 2006 17:00, Salvador Fandino wrote:
> > It serves disk images in any format QEMU can handle, for instance, qcow
> > images.
> >
> > 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.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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