Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img qcow and raw format

2007-04-12 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 10:09 +0200, Francois Visconte wrote: > qemu-img: Could not open 'deploy-in.fifo' > Is there any way to achieve this goal ? It strikes me that it's likely qemu-img assumes it can seek around in the file it is reading from, so perhaps you'll have to look at modifying qemu-

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img qcow and raw format

2007-04-12 Thread Ben Taylor
Francois Visconte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently developing an OS deployment tool similar to G4U (ghost for > unix). > This is a very basic tool > - boot an initrd > - configure network > - ssh deployment-server "cat image.dd" > /dev/sda > - reboot > > > I

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img qcow and raw format

2007-04-12 Thread Francois Visconte
Hello Creating a temp file maybe? I'm using qemu-img from an initrd so i can't create big file into a temps file. Creating a temp file may cause deployment to be 2 times longer: - ssh ... "cat image.dd" > temp_file - qemu-img convert temp_file -O raw /dev/sda Cheers, François

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img qcow and raw format

2007-04-12 Thread Gildas
Creating a temp file maybe? Cheers, Gildas 2007/4/12, Francois Visconte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I'm currently developing an OS deployment tool similar to G4U (ghost for unix). This is a very basic tool - boot an initrd - configure network - ssh deployment-server "cat image.dd" > /de