From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GuBbD-0007b2-O6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:39:27 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GuBbA-0007a2-9E for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:39:27 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GuBbA-0007Zz-76 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:39:24 -0500 Received: from [65.74.133.4] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GuBb9-0000AX-VD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:39:24 -0500 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:39:19 +0000 References: <20061212173322.5126.qmail@web26813.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20061212173322.5126.qmail@web26813.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612121739.19855.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, spetreolle@users.sourceforge.net > > > mount -o loop does this. > > > > How is everybody missing the point? :-) mount -o loop doesn't mount > > qcow images. > > Would be that difficult to write a qcow fs module ? qcow is an image format, not a filesystem. I'd guess it should be possible to use the device-mapper framework to do this. I've ho idea how hard this is in practice. Paul