From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: qemu-devel Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-img help missing backing file
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:30:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BB1EEF4.3070407@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <445AFA0A-43C1-4F8A-929E-EE3735E93999@suse.de>
Am 30.03.2010 14:22, schrieb Alexander Graf:
> Howdy,
>
> I just wanted to create a backed qcow2 image and was irritated by qemu-img not showing me the correct command line option. It's just missing from the list:
[...]
> Is this intentional? The actual command still works:
>
>> agraf@s390t27:~/git/qemu> qemu-img-kvm create -f qcow2 -b /media/studio/images/SUSE/s390/sles11.raw /dev/shm/sles11-zipl.qcow2
>> Formatting '/dev/shm/sles11-zipl.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 size=21474836480 backing_file='/media/studio/images/SUSE/s390/sles11.raw' encryption=off cluster_size=0
-b still works to maintain compatibility with older versions. The
documented way is -o backing_file=foo (the qemu-img output you quote
even contains this option).
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-30 12:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-30 12:22 [Qemu-devel] qemu-img help missing backing file Alexander Graf
2010-03-30 12:30 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2010-03-30 12:32 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2010-03-30 12:49 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-03-30 13:04 ` Juan Quintela
2010-03-30 13:23 ` Kevin Wolf
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