Laurent Vivier wrote: > This patch is a new version of qemu-img using NBD device to mount Qemu > disk image. > > To not hang on UP system, it needs following patch: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.nbd.general/42 > If you want to use loop to see partitions, you need this patch: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/651269 > otherwise use kpartx (see kpartx package of your distro). > > This patch implements in qemu-img the client and the server of the nbd > protocol. > Moreover, to avoid to specify a port to use, it creates a UNIX socket instead > of > a INET socket. > > It adds two actions to qemu-img: > - bind, to bind a disk image to a NBD device, > > qemu-img bind [-d] [-f fmt] device filename > > ('-d' to daemonize) > > - unbind, to unbind it. > > qemu-img unbind device > [...]
Perhaps adding a new specialized tool would be better as there is no direct relation with qemu-img. Fabrice.
