Explain the existing format specific options that can be used with qemu-img
create/convert -o ...
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The old options are still supported for compatibility, but they are
inconsistent (for example create -b vs. convert -B for backing files) and
incomplete (-F only exists for create) which tends to confuse people. Remove
all references to the old options from the documentation to guide users to the
more consistent -o options.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The description of the image formats is too long to be a subitem of a parameter
description. It will become even longer when we include the options provided by
the respective format.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Converting files using "qemu-img convert" onto logical volumes (or any
block device) you need to use the currently undocumented "host_device"
format. This patch adds the required documentation to the manpage.
Reported-by: Adrian Bridgett <adrian@bitcube.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bridgett <adrian@bitcube.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This is a new block driver written from scratch
to support the VDI format in QEMU.
VDI is the native format used by Innotek / SUN VirtualBox.
Latest changes:
* stripped down version
(code for synchronous operations and experimental code removed)
* don't open VDI snapshot images (with uuid_link or uuid_parent)
* modified vdi_aio_cancel
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Message-Id:
Use hxtool to generate the 'command syntax' section of qemu-img's help
message, and the corresponding section of the texinfo documentation.
This has the side-effect of adding 'check' to this list of commands in
the texinfo documentation.
Signed-off-by: Stuart Brady <stuart.brady@gmail.com>
Update the documentation to reflect the introduction of format specific options
with -o. Don't advertise -e or -6 any more, they exist only for compatibility
reasons and can be replaced by the corresponding -o options.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
If the user specifies the backing file format,
then when opening the backing file, there is no need
to probe the (backing file) image to figure out its format.
This follows my previous patches implementing bdrv_create2
which keeps (for qcow2 only) the backing file format
as a qcow2-extension
Suggested by Daniel P. Berrange.
Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin <uril@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@6910 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
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.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@6432 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
Kevin Wolf