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qemu-img: Add compare subcommand
This patch adds new qemu-img subcommand that compares content of two diskimages.
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com>Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
qemu-img: Add "Quiet mode" option
There can be a need to turn output to stdout off. This patch adds a -q optionthat enable "Quiet mode". In Quiet mode, only errors are printed out.
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com>Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>...
qemu-img: add json output option to the check command
This option --output=[human|json] makes qemu-img check output a humanor JSON representation at the choice of the user.
Signed-off-by: Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce@redhat.com>Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>...
Documentation: Update image format information
Document new and yet undocumented options and image formats. Theqemu-img man page contains information only for raw and qcow2 now andreferences the HTML documentation for a more detailed description ofother formats....
qemu-img: document 'info --backing-chain'
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kashyap.cv@gmail.com>Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
qemu-img rebase: use empty string to rebase without backing file
This patch allows an empty filename to be passed as the new base image namefor qemu-img rebase to mean base the image on no backing file (i.e.independent of any backing file). According to Eric Blake, qemu-img rebase...
Merge remote-tracking branch 'kwolf/for-anthony' into staging
Spelling fixes in comments and documentation
These wrong spellings were detected by codespell:
["also is" -> "is also" and "ressources" -> "resources" suggested by...
qemu-img: Add json output option to the info command.
This option --output=[human|json] make qemu-img info output onhuman or JSON representation at the choice of the user.
example: { "snapshots": [ { "vm-clock-nsec": 637102488, "name": "vm-20120821145509",...
Documentation: Warn against qemu-img on active image
People have repeatedly expected that you can do things like snapshottingan image with qemu-img while a qemu instance is running. Maybe we needto consider locking the files while they are in use, but having a...
qemu-img: document qed format on qemu-img man page
The qemu-img.1 man page is missing the qed format from its list ofsupported formats. Document the image creation options for qed.
Suggested-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>...
qemu-img check -r for repairing images
The QED block driver already provides the functionality to not onlydetect inconsistencies in images, but also fix them. However, thisfunctionality cannot be manually invoked with qemu-img, but thecheck happens only automatically during bdrv_open()....
qemu-img: Explain how rebase operation can be used to perform a 'diff' operation.
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Documentation: Add qemu-img -t parameter in man page
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
qemu-img: Require larger zero areas for sparse handling
By default, require 4k of consecutive zero bytes for qemu-img to make theoutput file sparse by not issuing a write request for the zeroed parts. Add an-S option to allow users to tune this setting....
Add missing documentation for qemu-img -p
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Documentation: Remove outdated host_device note
People shouldn't explicitly specify host_device any more. raw is doing theRight Thing.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Documentation: Add qemu-img check/rebase
Copy snapshots out of QCOW2 disk
In order to backup snapshots, created from QCOW2 iamge, we want to copy snapshots out of QCOW2 disk to a seperate storage.The following patch adds a new option in "qemu-img": qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O qcow2 -s snapshot_name src_img bck_img....
qemu-img: Add 'resize' command to grow/shrink disk images
This patch adds a 'resize' command to grow/shrink disk images. Thisallows changing the size of disk images without copying to a new imagefile. Currently only raw files support resize.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>...
Documentation: Move image format descriptions to own section
The description of the image formats is too long to be a subitem of a parameterdescription. It will become even longer when we include the options provided bythe respective format.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>...
Documentation: Don't mention old qemu-img options
The old options are still supported for compatibility, but they areinconsistent (for example create -b vs. convert -B for backing files) andincomplete (-F only exists for create) which tends to confuse people. Remove...
Documentation: Add options to image format descriptions
Explain the existing format specific options that can be used with qemu-imgcreate/convert -o ...
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
add host_device format description to qemu-img manpage
Converting files using "qemu-img convert" onto logical volumes (or anyblock device) you need to use the currently undocumented "host_device" format. This patch adds the required documentation to the manpage....
Add new block driver for the VDI format (only aio supported)
This is a new block driver written from scratchto support the VDI format in QEMU.
VDI is the native format used by Innotek / SUN VirtualBox.
Latest changes:
Use hxtool for qemu-img command list
Use hxtool to generate the 'command syntax' section of qemu-img's helpmessage, and the corresponding section of the texinfo documentation.
This has the side-effect of adding 'check' to this list of commands inthe texinfo documentation....
Document changes in qemu-img interface
Update the documentation to reflect the introduction of format specific optionswith -o. Don't advertise -e or -6 any more, they exist only for compatibilityreasons and can be replaced by the corresponding -o options....
qemu-img: adding a "-F base_fmt" option to "qemu-img create -b" (Uri Lublin)
If the user specifies the backing file format,then when opening the backing file, there is no needto probe the (backing file) image to figure out its format.
This follows my previous patches implementing bdrv_create2...
Synch code, help and docs
Rearrange code, help printout and docs so that they are in the same(hopefully more logical) order for easier maintenance.
Add help and docs for undocumented options.
Reformat slightly for more consistent help output.
Add comments to encourage better synchronization in the future....
New qemu-img convert -B option, by Marc Bevand.
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Update documentation for qemu-img convert options, by Marc Bevand.
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vmdk compatibility level 6 images, by Soren Hansen.
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find -type f | xargs sed -i 's/[\t ]$//g' # on most files
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Documentation spelling fixes, by Mark Glines.
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update
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doc update - added qemu-img manual page
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