[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] NBD support

[Laurent Vivier]

Hi,

This patch introduces a new tool: qemu-nbd.

qemu-nbd allows to export and mount a Qemu disk image using "Network
Block Device" protocol.

This work has been done by Anthony Liguori.

Original files:

http://codemonkey.ws/qemu-nbd

You can export a disk image with:

$ qemu-nbd my_disk.qcow2

and mount it on a remote host from the host "disk_server" with:

# nbd-client disk_server 1024 /dev/nbd0

of course, you need to load the nbd kernel module.

if you want to mount locally the file, you need to use a 2.6.26 kernel
to avoid an NBD deadlock on UP machine

With a 2.6.26 kernel you can also mount a specific partition:

# rmmod nbd
# modprobe nbd max_part=63
# nbd-client 192.168.1.1 1024 /dev/nbd0
Negotiation: ..size = 4194304KB
bs=1024, sz=4194304
# fdisk -l /dev/nbd0

Disk /dev/nbd0: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/nbd0p1   *           1         492     3951958+  83  Linux
/dev/nbd0p2             493         522      240975    5  Extended
/dev/nbd0p5             493         522      240943+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
# mount /dev/nbd0p1 /mnt
# ls /mnt
bin    dev   initrd      lib64       mnt   root  sys  var
boot   etc   initrd.img  lost+found  opt   sbin  tmp  vmlinuz
cdrom  home  lib         media       proc  srv   usr
# umount /mnt
# nbd-client -d /dev/nbd0

NOTE: qemu-nbd itself is able to export only one partition instead of
the whole disk (option --partition=N)

Regards,
Laurent
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