From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GuBdx-0000mf-MI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:42:17 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GuBdw-0000lm-1a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:42:17 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GuBdv-0000li-Sq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:42:15 -0500 Received: from [66.93.172.17] (helo=nevyn.them.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GuBdv-0000av-TD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:42:16 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:42:14 -0500 From: Daniel Jacobowitz Subject: Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images Message-ID: <20061212174214.GA25284@nevyn.them.org> References: <20061212171340.GA24143@nevyn.them.org> <20061212173322.5126.qmail@web26813.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061212173322.5126.qmail@web26813.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: spetreolle@users.sourceforge.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 06:33:22PM +0100, Sylvain Petreolle wrote: > > > > 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. > > > Would be that difficult to write a qcow fs module ? Probably not, but I think using nbd for it is much nicer. I think there would be trouble with partitionable devices, though. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery