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Kevin Wolf 3763f26f2f Documentation: Add qemu-img -t parameter in man page
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-15 12:40:08 +01:00
Kevin Wolf a22f123ca3 qemu-img: Require larger zero areas for sparse handling
By default, require 4k of consecutive zero bytes for qemu-img to make the
output file sparse by not issuing a write request for the zeroed parts. Add an
-S option to allow users to tune this setting.

This helps to avoid situations where a lot of zero sectors and data sectors are
mixed and qemu-img tended to issue many tiny 512 byte writes.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-08-29 14:42:39 +02:00
Jes Sorensen aaf55b4795 Add missing documentation for qemu-img -p
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-07-20 11:13:52 +02:00
Kevin Wolf 02854532c2 Documentation: Remove outdated host_device note
People shouldn't explicitly specify host_device any more. raw is doing the
Right Thing.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-07-05 11:23:29 +02:00
Kevin Wolf e61846908e Documentation: Add qemu-img check/rebase
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-01-24 16:41:49 +01:00
edison 51ef67270b Copy snapshots out of QCOW2 disk
In order to backup snapshots, created from QCOW2 iamge, we want to copy snapshots out of QCOW2 disk to a seperate storage.
The following patch adds a new option in "qemu-img": qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O qcow2 -s snapshot_name src_img bck_img.
Right now, it only supports to copy the full snapshot, delta snapshot is on the way.

Changes from V1: all the comments from Kevin are addressed:
Add read-only checking
Fix coding style
Change the name from bdrv_snapshot_load to bdrv_snapshot_load_tmp

Signed-off-by: Disheng Su <edison@cloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2010-10-22 14:49:35 +02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi ae6b0ed6d4 qemu-img: Add 'resize' command to grow/shrink disk images
This patch adds a 'resize' command to grow/shrink disk images.  This
allows changing the size of disk images without copying to a new image
file.  Currently only raw files support resize.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2010-05-03 10:07:32 +02:00
Kevin Wolf 3e03236438 Documentation: Add options to image format descriptions
Explain the existing format specific options that can be used with qemu-img
create/convert -o ...

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-11-09 08:43:12 -06:00
Kevin Wolf 8063d0fe3b Documentation: Don't mention old qemu-img options
The old options are still supported for compatibility, but they are
inconsistent (for example create -b vs. convert -B for backing files) and
incomplete (-F only exists for create) which tends to confuse people. Remove
all references to the old options from the documentation to guide users to the
more consistent -o options.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-11-09 08:43:12 -06:00
Kevin Wolf f932c04039 Documentation: Move image format descriptions to own section
The description of the image formats is too long to be a subitem of a parameter
description. It will become even longer when we include the options provided by
the respective format.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-11-09 08:43:12 -06:00
Adrian Bridgett a6af8e5f96 add host_device format description to qemu-img manpage
Converting files using "qemu-img convert" onto logical volumes (or any
block device) you need to use the currently undocumented "host_device"
format.  This patch adds the required documentation to the manpage.

Reported-by: Adrian Bridgett <adrian@bitcube.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bridgett <adrian@bitcube.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-06 14:36:09 -05:00
Stefan Weil 9aebd98aab Add new block driver for the VDI format (only aio supported)
This is a new block driver written from scratch
to support the VDI format in QEMU.

VDI is the native format used by Innotek / SUN VirtualBox.

Latest changes:

* stripped down version
  (code for synchronous operations and experimental code removed)

* don't open VDI snapshot images (with uuid_link or uuid_parent)

* modified vdi_aio_cancel

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Message-Id:
2009-08-10 13:05:30 -05:00
Stuart Brady 153859be1a Use hxtool for qemu-img command list
Use hxtool to generate the 'command syntax' section of qemu-img's help
message, and the corresponding section of the texinfo documentation.

This has the side-effect of adding 'check' to this list of commands in
the texinfo documentation.

Signed-off-by: Stuart Brady <stuart.brady@gmail.com>
2009-06-07 09:59:47 +03:00
Kevin Wolf eff442662d Document changes in qemu-img interface
Update the documentation to reflect the introduction of format specific options
with -o. Don't advertise -e or -6 any more, they exist only for compatibility
reasons and can be replaced by the corresponding -o options.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2009-06-06 18:39:02 +03:00
aliguori 9230eaf679 qemu-img: adding a "-F base_fmt" option to "qemu-img create -b" (Uri Lublin)
If the user specifies the backing file format,
then when opening the backing file, there is no need
to probe the (backing file) image to figure out its format.

This follows my previous patches implementing bdrv_create2
which keeps (for qcow2 only) the backing file format
as a qcow2-extension

Suggested by Daniel P. Berrange.

Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin <uril@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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2009-03-28 17:55:19 +00:00
blueswir1 d2c639d6dc Synch code, help and docs
Rearrange code, help printout and docs so that they are in the same
(hopefully more logical) order for easier maintenance.

Add help and docs for undocumented options.

Reformat slightly for more consistent help output.

Add comments to encourage better synchronization in the future.


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2009-01-24 18:19:25 +00:00
ths f58c7b3545 New qemu-img convert -B option, by Marc Bevand.
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2008-06-05 21:53:49 +00:00
ths ff7ab59f40 Update documentation for qemu-img convert options, by Marc Bevand.
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2008-06-05 21:00:28 +00:00
ths ec36ba1474 vmdk compatibility level 6 images, by Soren Hansen.
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2007-09-16 21:59:02 +00:00
ths 5fafdf24ef find -type f | xargs sed -i 's/[\t ]$//g' # on most files
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2007-09-16 21:08:06 +00:00
ths 4be456f126 Documentation spelling fixes, by Mark Glines.
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2007-06-03 13:41:28 +00:00
bellard 19d36792c0 update
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2006-08-07 21:34:34 +00:00
bellard e5d80f94c5 update
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2005-07-23 17:43:14 +00:00
bellard acd935ef62 doc update - added qemu-img manual page
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2004-11-15 22:57:26 +00:00