Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add text about how to use qemu-nbd with qemu

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 04/07/2012 04:14, Wayne Xia ha scritto:
> 
>> of the internal structure inside - be it raw, or qcow, or anything else.
>> So, if you specify the format of the device explicitly, by using
>> format=raw, only single connection will be made.
>   thanks, that helped me. A bit more question: is there a way to let
> nbd client know the image format used by server? qemu-nbd exports
> simple_qcow2.img, and qemu saw it as raw block device, is it possible to
> get the information in qemu that server is using qcow2 image?

qemu-nbd takes care of the format translation itself, and always exposes
the image as raw.

Paolo