From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:52:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090213155227.GE18471@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090213142724.GK15807@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 06:15:57PM +0100, D. Schreiber wrote:
> > is it possible to add "pipe"-Mode like this?
> >
> > dd if=/dev/sda | qemu-img convert -f raw - -O qcow2 newImage.img
>
> Does this work:
>
> dd if=/dev/sda | qemu-img convert -f raw <(dd if=/dev/sda) -O qcow2 newImage.img
No point running dd twice at the same time :-)
I suspect you meant one of these:
dd if=/dev/sda | qemu-img convert -f raw /dev/stdin -O qcow2 newImage.img
qemu-img convert -f raw <(dd if=/dev/sda) -O qcow2 newImage.img
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-13 15:52 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
2009-02-13 14:27 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-02-13 15:52 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-02-13 16:42 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-02-13 19:09 ` [Qemu-devel] qemu-img D. Schreiber
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