If we rebase an image whose backing file has compressed clusters, we
might end up wasting disk space since the copied clusters are now
uncompressed. In order to have better control over this, let's add
"--compress" option to the "qemu-img rebase" command.
Note that this option affects only the clusters which are actually being
copied from the original backing file. The clusters which were
uncompressed in the target image will remain so.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Drobyshev <andrey.drobyshev@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20230919165804.439110-8-andrey.drobyshev@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
qemu-img convert documents the backing file and backing format options
as follows:
[-B backing_file [-F backing_fmt]]
whereas qemu-img create has this:
[-b backing_file] [-F backing_fmt]
That is, for convert, we document that -F cannot be given without -B,
while for create, way say that they are independent.
Indeed, it is technically possible to give -F without -b, because it is
left to the block driver to decide whether this is an error or not, so
sometimes it is:
$ qemu-img create -f qed -F qed test.qed 64M
Formatting 'test.qed', fmt=qed size=67108864 backing_fmt=qed [...]
And sometimes it is not:
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -F qcow2 test.qcow2 64M
Formatting 'test.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 cluster_size=65536 [...]
qemu-img: test.qcow2: Backing format cannot be used without backing file
Generally, it does not make much sense, though, and users should only
give -F with -b, so document it that way, as we have already done for
qemu-img convert (commit 1899bf4737).
Reported-by: Tingting Mao <timao@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220131135908.32393-1-hreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Use consistent capitalization, and fix a missed line (we duplicate the
qemu-img synopses in too many places).
Fixes: 1899bf4737 (qemu-img: Add -F shorthand to convert)
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210921142812.2631605-1-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
Although we have long supported 'qemu-img convert -o
backing_file=foo,backing_fmt=bar', the fact that we have a shortcut -B
for backing_file but none for backing_fmt has made it more likely that
users accidentally run into:
qemu-img: warning: Deprecated use of backing file without explicit backing format
when using -B instead of -o. For similarity with other qemu-img
commands, such as create and compare, add '-F $fmt' as the shorthand
for '-o backing_fmt=$fmt'. Update iotest 122 for coverage of both
spellings.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210913131735.1948339-1-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
add support for rate limit in qemu-img convert.
Signed-off-by: Zhengui <lizhengui@huawei.com>
Message-Id: <1603205264-17424-3-git-send-email-lizhengui@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
add support for rate limit in qemu-img commit.
Signed-off-by: Zhengui <lizhengui@huawei.com>
Message-Id: <1603205264-17424-2-git-send-email-lizhengui@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Missed in 3c95fdef94 "Update comments in .hx files that mention
Texinfo".
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200929075824.1517969-2-armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
'force' option will be used for some unsafe amend operations.
This includes things like erasing last keyslot in luks based formats
(which destroys the data, unless the master key is backed up
by external means), but that _might_ be desired result.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200608094030.670121-4-mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Make it easier to copy all the persistent bitmaps of (the top layer
of) a source image along with its guest-visible contents, by adding a
boolean flag for use with qemu-img convert. This is basically
shorthand, as the same effect could be accomplished with a series of
'qemu-img bitmap --add' and 'qemu-img bitmap --merge -b source'
commands, or by their corresponding QMP commands.
Note that this command will fail in the same scenarios where 'qemu-img
measure' omits a 'bitmaps size:' line, namely, when either the source
or the destination lacks persistent bitmap support altogether.
See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1779893
While touching this, clean up a couple coding issues spotted in the
same function: an extra blank line, and merging back-to-back 'if
(!skip_create)' blocks.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200521192137.1120211-5-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Include actions for --add, --remove, --clear, --enable, --disable, and
--merge (note that --clear is a bit of fluff, because the same can be
accomplished by removing a bitmap and then adding a new one in its
place, but it matches what QMP commands exist). Listing is omitted,
because it does not require a bitmap name and because it was already
possible with 'qemu-img info'. A single command line can play one or
more bitmap commands in sequence on the same bitmap name (although all
added bitmaps share the same granularity, and and all merged bitmaps
come from the same source file). Merge defaults to other bitmaps in
the primary image, but can also be told to merge bitmaps from a
distinct image.
While this supports --image-opts for the file being modified, I did
not think it worth the extra complexity to support that for the source
file in a cross-file merges. Likewise, I chose to have --merge only
take a single source rather than following the QMP support for
multiple merges in one go (although you can still use more than one
--merge in the command line); in part because qemu-img is offline and
therefore atomicity is not an issue.
Upcoming patches will add iotest coverage of these commands while
also testing other features.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200513011648.166876-7-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Missed in commit e13c59fa.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200513011648.166876-3-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
The mapping operation of large disks especially ones stored over a
long chain of QCOW2 files can take a long time to finish.
Additionally when mapping fails there was no way recover by
restarting the mapping from the failed location.
The new options, --start-offset and --max-length allows the user to
divide these type of map operations into shorter independent tasks.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com>
Co-developed-by: Yoav Elnekave <yoav.elnekave@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Yoav Elnekave <yoav.elnekave@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eyal Moscovici <eyal.moscovici@oracle.com>
Message-Id: <20200513133629.18508-5-eyal.moscovici@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
In many cases the target of a convert operation is a newly provisioned
target that the user knows is blank (reads as zero). In this situation
there is no requirement for qemu-img to wastefully zero out the entire
device.
Add a new option, --target-is-zero, allowing the user to indicate that
an existing target device will return zeros for all reads.
Signed-off-by: David Edmondson <david.edmondson@oracle.com>
Message-Id: <20200205110248.2009589-2-david.edmondson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
The '-i AIO' option was accidentally placed after '-n' and '-t'. Move it
after '--flush-interval'.
Signed-off-by: Julia Suvorova <jusual@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200205163008.204493-1-jusual@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Now the qemu-img documentation has been converted to rST, we can
remove the texinfo document fragments from qemu-img-cmds.hx, as
they are no longer used.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20200124162606.8787-7-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Add the rST versions of the documentation fragments.
Once we've converted qemu-img.texi to rST we can delete
the texi fragments; for the moment we leave them in place.
(Commit created with the aid of emacs query-replace-regexp
from "@var{\([^}]*\)}" to "\,(upcase \1))".)
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20200124162606.8787-5-peter.maydell@linaro.org
This adds a salvaging mode (--salvage) to qemu-img convert which ignores
read errors and treats the respective areas as containing only zeroes.
This can be used for instance to at least partially recover the data
from terminally corrupted qcow2 images.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20190507203508.18026-3-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
It turns out that having options listed in three places continues to be
a bad idea. I'm still toying with the idea of an improved infrastructure
here, but in the meantime, another bandaid.
There are three locations:
(1) .hx file, formatted as texi
(2) .hx file, formatted as human readable.
(3) .texi file, as section headers, formatted as texi.
You can compare the two summaries within the .hx file like so:
Human-readable command summaries:
`./qemu-img --help | grep 'Command syntax' -A14`
Detokenized texi command summaries:
`grep "@item" qemu-img-cmds.hx | sed -E 's|@var\{([^\}]*?)\}|\1|g'`
You can compare the two separate texi summaries like so:
Texi command summaries:
`grep "@item" qemu-img-cmds.hx"`
Texi command headers:
grep -E "@item.*@var" qemu-img.texi | tail -14
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190409210655.777-1-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
It has been marked as deprecated since QEMU v2.0 already, so it
is time now to finally remove it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1528288551-31641-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
I'm kidding. It's very easy to forget there are per-command sections
in the texi, and insane that we don't autogenerate those, too.
Until then, leave a little post-it note in this .hx file until I
find a way to delete it.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
These are also different and out of order for whatever reason.
I'd like to automate this in the future, but for now let's put
on the band-aid.
In the case of resize, there were options missing from all
three docstrings; the new string is based on the code.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
The TEXI and string versions are actually identical, except for markup.
We can probably automate this... but make the ordering the same until
then.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
The flag is additional precaution against data loss. Perhaps in the future the
operation shrink without this flag will be blocked for all formats, but for now
we need to maintain compatibility with raw.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Butsykin <pbutsykin@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170918124230.8152-2-pbutsykin@virtuozzo.com
[mreitz: Added a missing space to a warning]
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
'amend' and 'create' were not listed alphabetically; hoist them
earlier. Separate the @end table block to make it easier to
copy-and-paste the addition of future sub-commands.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20170803163353.19558-2-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Or, rather, force the open of a backing image if one was specified
for creation. Using a similar -unsafe option as rebase, allow qemu-img
to ignore the backing file validation if possible.
It may not always be possible, as in the existing case when a filesize
for the new image was not specified.
This is accomplished by shifting around the conditionals in
bdrv_img_create, such that a backing file is always opened unless we
provide BDRV_O_NO_BACKING. qemu-img is adjusted to pass this new flag
when -u is provided to create.
Sorry for the heinous looking diffstat, but it's mostly whitespace.
Inspired by: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213786
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The measure subcommand calculates the size required by a new image file.
This can be used by users or management tools that need to allocate
space on an LVM volume, SAN LUN, etc before creating or converting an
image file.
Suggested-by: Maor Lipchuk <mlipchuk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Message-id: 20170705125738.8777-8-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
The '--image-opts' flag indicates whether the source filename
includes options. The target filename has to remain in the
plain filename format though, since it needs to be passed to
bdrv_create(). When using --skip-create though, it would be
possible to use image-opts syntax. This adds --target-image-opts
to indicate that the target filename includes options. Currently
this mandates use of the --skip-create flag too.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170515164712.6643-4-berrange@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
It got lost in commit a8d16f9ca "qemu-img: Update documentation for -U".
Reported-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170515103551.31313-1-famz@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
The create and convert subcommands have shorthands to set the
backing_file and, in the case of create, the backing_fmt options for the
new image. However, they have not been documented so far, which is
remedied by this patch.
Reported-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The documentation and help for qemu-img claims that 'qemu-img create'
will take the '--image-opts' argument. This is not true, so this
patch removes those claims.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
the convert process is currently completely implemented with sync operations.
That means it reads one buffer and then writes it. No parallelism and each sync
request takes as long as it takes until it is completed.
This can be a big performance hit when the convert process reads and writes
to devices which do not benefit from kernel readahead or pagecache.
In our environment we heavily have the following two use cases when using
qemu-img convert.
a) reading from NFS and writing to iSCSI for deploying templates
b) reading from iSCSI and writing to NFS for backups
In both processes we use libiscsi and libnfs so we have no kernel cache.
This patch changes the convert process to work with parallel running coroutines
which can significantly improve performance for network storage devices:
qemu-img (master)
nfs -> iscsi 22.8 secs
nfs -> ram 11.7 secs
ram -> iscsi 12.3 secs
qemu-img-async (8 coroutines, in-order write disabled)
nfs -> iscsi 11.0 secs
nfs -> ram 10.4 secs
ram -> iscsi 9.0 secs
This patches introduces 2 new cmdline parameters. The -m parameter to specify
the number of coroutines running in parallel (defaults to 8). And the -W parameter to
allow qemu-img to write to the target out of order rather than sequential. This improves
performance as the writes do not have to wait for each other to complete.
Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This adds the skip option which allows qemu-img dd to skip a number of blocks
before copying the input.
A test case was added to test the skip option.
Signed-off-by: Reda Sallahi <fullmanet@gmail.com>
Message-id: 20160810141609.32727-1-fullmanet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
This patch adds a basic dd subcommand analogous to dd(1) to qemu-img.
For the start, this implements the bs, if, of and count options and requires
both if and of to be specified (no stdin/stdout if not specified) and doesn't
support tty, pipes, etc.
The image format must be specified with -O for the output if the raw format
is not the intended one.
Two tests are added to test qemu-img dd.
Signed-off-by: Reda Sallahi <fullmanet@gmail.com>
Message-id: 20160810024312.14544-1-fullmanet@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
[mreitz: Moved test 158 to 170]
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
This options allows to flush the image periodically during write tests.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
With this new option, qemu-img bench can be told to advance the current
offset after each request by a different value than the buffer size.
This is useful for controlling the conditions for cluster allocation in
image formats (e.g. qcow2 cluster allocation with COW in front of the
request, or COW areas that aren't overwritten immediately).
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This patch adds an option the specify the offset of the first request
made by qemu-img bench. This allows to benchmark misaligned requests.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This extends qemu-img bench with an option that makes it use sequential
writes instead of reads for the test run.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This adds a qemu-img command that allows doing some simple benchmarks
for the block layer without involving guest devices and a real VM.
For the start, this implements only a test of sequential reads.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Currently qemu-img allows an image filename to be passed on the
command line, but unless using the JSON format, it does not have
a way to set any options except the format eg
qemu-img info https://127.0.0.1/images/centos7.iso
This adds a --image-opts arg that indicates that the positional
filename should be interpreted as a full option string, not
just a filename.
qemu-img info --image-opts driver=https,url=https://127.0.0.1/images,sslverify=off
This flag is mutually exclusive with the '-f' / '-F' flags.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Allow creation of user creatable object types with qemu-img
via a new --object command line arg. This will be used to supply
passwords and/or encryption keys to the various block driver
backends via the recently added 'secret' object type.
# printf letmein > mypasswd.txt
# qemu-img info --object secret,id=sec0,file=mypasswd.txt \
...other info args...
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Now that bdrv_amend_options() supports a status callback, use it to
display a progress report.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoît Canet <benoit.canet@nodalink.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1414404776-4919-3-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Introduce a new parameter for qemu-img commit which may be used to
explicitly specify the backing file into which an image should be
committed if the backing chain has more than a single layer.
[Applied Eric Blake's qemu-img.texi documentation rewording
--Stefan]
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1414159063-25977-12-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Implement progress output for the commit command by querying the
progress of the block job.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1414159063-25977-11-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
After the top image has been committed, it should be emptied unless
specified otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1414159063-25977-10-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
qemu-img amend may extensively modify the target image, depending on the
options to be amended (e.g. conversion to qcow2 compat level 0.10 from
1.1 for an image with many unallocated zero clusters). Therefore it
makes sense to allow the user to specify the cache mode to be used.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Many qemu-img subcommands only read the source file(s) once. For these
use cases, a full write-back cache is unnecessary and mainly clutters
host cache memory. Though this is generally no concern as cache memory
is freely available and can be scaled by the host OS, it may become a
concern with thin provisioning.
For these cases, it makes sense to allow users to freely specify the
source cache mode (e.g. use no cache at all).
This commit adds a new switch (-T) for the qemu-img subcommands check,
compare, convert and rebase to specify the cache to be used for source
images (the backing file in case of rebase).
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Now qemu-img convert have similar options as qemu-nbd for internal
snapshot.
Signed-off-by: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
