El 04/09/2007 17:34, Petar Bogdanovic escribió: > 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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