On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 05:02:26PM GMT, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> This tool converts a disk image to qcow2, writing the result directly
> to stdout. This can be used for example to send the generated file
> over the network.
Overall seems like a useful idea to me.
>
> This is equivalent to using q
On Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:20:18 PM -05, Eric Blake wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 05:02:26PM GMT, Alberto Garcia wrote:
>> +# qcow2 files produced by this script are always arranged like this:
>> +#
>> +# - qcow2 header
>> +# - refcount table
>> +# - refcount blocks
>> +# - L1 table
>> +# - L2 tables
This tool converts a disk image to qcow2, writing the result directly
to stdout. This can be used for example to send the generated file
over the network.
This is equivalent to using qemu-img to convert a file to qcow2 and
then writing the result to stdout, with the difference that this tool
does
