[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Integration of qemu-img
From: |
Stefan Hajnoczi |
Subject: |
Re: Integration of qemu-img |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:18:13 +0100 |
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 09:50:48AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Cc: qemu-block
>
> <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Dear Sir or Madam,
> >
> >
> >
> > I am a PhD student at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
> > in Bavaria Germany and I am currently working on an open-source forensic
> > analysis tool. I would like to use qemu-img for converting virtual discs to
> > raw files and to get virtual disc information. By now I tried to create a
> > qemu-img DLL with the qemu source code you provide on your website, but I am
> > unable to compile it properly. Therefore, I would like to ask you if there
> > is a simple solution to integrate qemu-img to other C++ projects? Or is
> > there a precompiled qemu-img DLL which I could use? Thank you very much for
> > your support.
Can you simply spawn a qemu-img process from your application? That
would be much easier than trying to build it as a library and link it
into your application.
qemu-img has --output=json exactly for this case. It will let you parse
the output as JSON.
Stefan
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature