[Qemu-devel] Is compressed qcow2 better in read/write performance?

2017-07-17 Thread
qcow2 support compress option to compress image file. I try to read both files through API by libguestfs(such as pread_device) I'm confused with the performance during read or write I tried to compress A.qcow2 to A_compress.qcow2 and it changes from 16GB to 23MB I tried read on A_compress.qcow2

[Qemu-devel] Can I mount encrypt qcow2?

2017-07-19 Thread
Can I mount encrypt qcow2 file through qemu-nbd? I tried but failed and nothing about that in man page

Re: [Qemu-devel] Can I mount encrypt qcow2?

2017-07-20 Thread
emo.qcow2,encrypt.format=luks,encrypt.key-secret=sec0 Supposed the encrypted file called disk_encry.qcow2 Can I mount disk_encry.qcow2 by the cmd? > qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 disk_encry.qcow2 2017-07-20 16:59 GMT+08:00 Daniel P. Berrange : > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:43:53AM +0800, 陳培泓

[Qemu-devel] unrecognized option --object

2017-07-20 Thread
I build qemu from the https://github.com/qemu/qemu, and it didn't show any errors. I tried qemu-nbd --object secret,id=sec0... but it shows unrecognized option '--object ' how to solve it?

Re: [Qemu-devel] Can I mount encrypt qcow2?

2017-07-20 Thread
w2,encrypt.format=luks,encrypt.key-secret=sec0 but it shows unrecognized option '--object ' why?I missed to install something? 2017-07-20 17:12 GMT+08:00 Daniel P. Berrange : > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 05:07:49PM +0800, 陳培泓 wrote: > > oh~ I don't know can expose th

Re: [Qemu-devel] Can I mount encrypt qcow2?

2017-07-21 Thread
> Block format 'qcow2' does not support the option 'encrypt.format' Maybe it doen't support yet? 2017-07-21 16:38 GMT+08:00 Daniel P. Berrange : > On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 09:44:33AM +0800, 陳培泓 wrote: > > I re-build qemu from the https://github.com/qemu/qemu,

Re: [Qemu-devel] unrecognized option --object

2017-07-21 Thread
It works when I replace /usr/bin/qemu-nbd with qemu-nbd which I just built from qemu github. 2017-07-21 17:26 GMT+08:00 Fam Zheng : > On Fri, 07/21 10:15, Peter Maydell wrote: > > On 21 July 2017 at 05:10, Fam Zheng wrote: > > > On Thu, 07/20 19:06, 陳培泓 wrote: > > >&g

Re: [Qemu-devel] Can I mount encrypt qcow2?

2017-07-21 Thread
oh Maybe the version is something wrong? qemu-img -V > qemu-img version 2.9.0 qemu-nbd -V > qemu-nbd version 0.0.1 They're not correspondent? 2017-07-21 17:34 GMT+08:00 Daniel P. Berrange : > On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 05:31:04PM +0800, 陳培泓 wrote: > > It works after I

Re: [Qemu-devel] Can I mount encrypt qcow2?

2017-07-23 Thread
I check to the newest version of qemu. and do the cmds to install followed by the documents in github: > mkdir build > cd build > ../configure > make and it show nothing errors​ It's the version when I enter qemu-img --help: and I execute encrypt format(luks) to the qcow2 file: ​ always shows