From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GuCnB-0005pl-Sv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:55:53 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GuCn9-0005os-U8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:55:53 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GuCn9-0005od-ID for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:55:51 -0500 Received: from [32.97.182.145] (helo=e5.ny.us.ibm.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GuCn9-00081t-LJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:55:51 -0500 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e5.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kBCItnXu031523 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:55:49 -0500 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (d01av03.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.217]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/NCO v8.1.1) with ESMTP id kBCIt0OJ106812 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:55:00 -0500 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id kBCIt0YW006153 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:55:00 -0500 Received: from [9.53.41.158] (dyn95341158.austin.ibm.com [9.53.41.158]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kBCIsxUO006139 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:55:00 -0500 Message-ID: <457EFB03.30802@codemonkey.ws> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:54:59 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20061212173322.5126.qmail@web26813.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200612121739.19855.paul@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <200612121739.19855.paul@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images 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 Paul Brook wrote: >>>> 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. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/DmUserspace It will take a little time to get upstream though but it's actively being worked on. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Paul