Re: Did qemu-img support stdin/stdout

[Shifeng Zhang]

Mark, thanks for the reply and the confirmation. 

Steve

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 11:06 AM Max Reitz <address@hidden> wrote:

On 10.01.20 17:40, Shifeng Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to use qemu-img with pipe? like qemu-img convert -f raw
> -O vmdk - | other_command?
>
> I tried to use pipe and seemed not working, hopefully some experts can
> confirm it works with pipe or not.

Hi,

No, it isn’t, unfortunately.  The files need to be seekable.

Max

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Regards,

Shifeng