On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 06:52:59PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: > This adds the "map" subcommand to qemu-img. It is able to expose the raw > content of a disk image via a FUSE filesystem. Both the whole disk can > be accessed, e.g. to run partitioning tools against it, as well as > individual partitions. This allows to create new filesystems in the > image or loop-back mount exiting ones. Using the great mountlo tool > from the FUSE collection [1][2], the latter can even be done by non-root > users (the former anyway).
Is there a good reason to throw this into qemu-img instead of making a separate qemu-fuse or similar tool? It's doing something quite different than the rest of qemu-img.