On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 04:45:11PM +0200, bardo wrote:
> On 9/4/07, Petar Bogdanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > is there a way to create a loop device based on a disk-image which
> > ``grows as data is added''?
> >
> > I'm thinking about all the disk-image formats used by qemu -- qcow,
> > qcow2, vmdk and so on.
>
> IIRC virtualbox does that, it puts it as an option when you create a
> new virtual partition, try to look at it.
It's not about creating (qcow|qcow2|vmdk)-images, it's about using them
through losetup or something similar.
I think that the following page can give you a good idea about what I
would like to do:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/DmUserspace
Since arch offers no binary package of DmUserspace, I sensed a more
elegant way to get that job done.
Thanks & regards,
Petar
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