On Tuesday 12 December 2006 17:00, Salvador Fandino wrote: > Martin Guy wrote: > >> The patch available from http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?t=2718 > >> adds a new utility, qemu-nbds, that implements a NBD server > > > > I have been using nbd volumes mounted from inside qemu for filestore > > and for swap, both read-write, served from files and from partitions, > > with the unmodified standard nbd-server (debian testing version) for > > intensive work and it has been faster and more reliable than NFS (not > > that that's saying much). > > > > The only thing that doesn't work is the -swap option, which just > > hangs, but that proves not to be necessary when swapping onto nbd host > > volume from qemu-land, even when stress-testing it. > > > > What problem is solved by a specially modified nbd server? > > It serves disk images in any format QEMU can handle, for instance, qcow > images. > > It's mostly intended to be used for accessing the files inside QEMU disk > images locally, without having to launch a virtual machine and accessing > then from there.
mount -o loop does this. Paul _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
