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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img


From: Kevin Wolf
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:03:01 +0100
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D. Schreiber schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> is it possible to add "pipe"-Mode like this?
> 
> dd if=/dev/sda | qemu-img convert -f raw - -O qcow2 newImage.img
> 
> I know i can read directly from device, but in some cases (i.e. get data
> from netcat) it would be nice to convert from stdin. Alternative: read
> from fifo.

That shouldn't be too difficult to implement. It just needs someone to
do it.

> Another wish is to mount an compressed qcow-Image as loop-Device.

You can use qemu-nbd instead.

Kevin




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