On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 04:45:11PM +0200, bardo wrote: > On 9/4/07, Petar Bogdanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is there a way to create a loop device based on a disk-image which > > ``grows as data is added''? > > > > I'm thinking about all the disk-image formats used by qemu -- qcow, > > qcow2, vmdk and so on. > > IIRC virtualbox does that, it puts it as an option when you create a > new virtual partition, try to look at it.
It's not about creating (qcow|qcow2|vmdk)-images, it's about using them through losetup or something similar. I think that the following page can give you a good idea about what I would like to do: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/DmUserspace Since arch offers no binary package of DmUserspace, I sensed a more elegant way to get that job done. Thanks & regards, Petar _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch