Re: Exporting qcow2 images as raw data from ova file with qemu-nbd

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 11:47:19AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> In theory yes, but it would require exposing the export name
> (nbdkit_export_name() -> nbdkit.export_name()) to Python plugins,
> which we don't do at the moment.  See plugins/python/python.c:
> NbdkitMethods[].  That would also mean the plugin would require the
> latest nbdkit so you'd have to wait for patches to get backported to
> RHEL 8.

I added a binding to nbdkit_export_name() upstream.  Modifying the new
tar plugin to support it is left as an exercise for the reader (but
isn't very hard).

Rich.

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