Re: Exporting qcow2 images as raw data from ova file with qemu-nbd

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 01:14:43PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:47 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Here you go:
> >
> > https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/commit/2d15e79f65764d9b0c68bea28ed6afbcbcc63467
> 
> Nice!
> 
> But using qemu-nbd directly is much simpler and will perform better.

nbdkit-tar-plugin now rewritten in C:

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2020-June/msg00119.html

> Regardless, nbdit tar plugin is awesome. Is it possible to expose all
> the disks from
> a tar file so they are accessible using the export name?

I still didn't implement this bit, left as an exercise for the reader.

Rich.

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