Am 22.09.2020 um 12:49 hat Max Reitz geschrieben: > Based-on: <20200907182011.521007-1-kw...@redhat.com> > (“block/export: Add infrastructure and QAPI for block exports”) > > (Though its patch 16 needs a s/= \&blk_exp_nbd/= drv/ on top.) > > v1: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2019-12/msg00451.html > > Branch: https://github.com/XanClic/qemu.git fuse-exports-v2 > Branch: https://git.xanclic.moe/XanClic/qemu.git fuse-exports-v2 > > > Hi, > > Ever since I found out that you can mount FUSE filesystems on regular > files (not just directories), I had the idea of adding FUSE block > exports to qemu where you can export block nodes as raw images. The > best thing is that you’d be able to mount an image on itself, so > whatever format it may be in, qemu lets it appear as a raw image (and > you can then use regular tools like dd on it). > > The performance is quite bad so far, but we can always try to improve it > if the need arises. For now I consider it mostly a cute feature to get > easy access to the raw contents of image files in any format (without > requiring root rights). > > In this version (as opposed to v1 linked above), I integrated the FUSE > export code into Kevin’s proposed common infrastructure for block > exports.
Patches 5-16, 19 and 20: Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com>
