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ID9699bf0d06eb42625779216586a28d19d8fc005d

Added by Stefan Hajnoczi over 11 years ago

qemu-img: Add --backing-chain option to info command

The qemu-img info --backing-chain option enumerates the backing file
chain. For example, for base.qcow2 <- snap1.qcow2 <- snap2.qcow2 the
output becomes:

$ qemu-img info --backing-chain snap2.qcow2
image: snap2.qcow2
file format: qcow2
virtual size: 100M (104857600 bytes)
disk size: 196K
cluster_size: 65536
backing file: snap1.qcow2
backing file format: qcow2
image: snap1.qcow2
file format: qcow2
virtual size: 100M (104857600 bytes)
disk size: 196K
cluster_size: 65536
backing file: base.qcow2
backing file format: qcow2
image: base.qcow2
file format: qcow2
virtual size: 100M (104857600 bytes)
disk size: 136K
cluster_size: 65536

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <>

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