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Re: [Qemu-devel] Stupid question?


From: Tim
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Stupid question?
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 10:05:32 -0400
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> (I lied above. There is one way to make them work, but it is fairly contorted
> and twisted and not at all trivial. It'd be a massive project in itself ...
> bsaicly you'd need to write a daemon that pretended to be a user-space NFS
> server, and have it read/write to the cow image on the kernel's behalf. This 
> is
> extra hard because it would have to know what a FAT/NTFS/ext2/etc file system
> looks like in a cow image. Easier just to convert the cow into a regular image
> and use that.)

Actually, an easier method might be to write a daemon that acts like a
network block device that Linux supports, then read from it.  The daemon
wouldn't have to know anything about the filesystem.  I don't think
network block devices are very cross-platform, but if you really needed
to do it, it might be an option.

tim




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