Package: qemu
Version: 0.9.1-10lenny1
Severity: minor
Despite claiming to be compatible,
--cut: qemu-img(1) --
"cow"
User Mode Linux Copy On Write image format. Used to be the only
growable image format in QEMU. It is supported only for
compatibility with previous versions. It does not work on
win32.
--cut: qemu-img(1) --
qemu-img(1) fails to actually support the .cow files produced by
uml_mkcow(1), at least on amd64:
$ qemu-img info 1255869863.cow
image: 1255869863.cow
file format: raw
virtual size: 4.0G (4296024064 bytes)
disk size: 3.6G
$ qemu-img info -f cow 1255869863.cow
qemu-img: Could not open '1255869863.cow'
$
$ LC_ALL=C dpkg -l uml-utilities qemu
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii qemu 0.9.1-10lenny1 fast processor emulator
ii uml-utilities 20070815-1.1 User-mode Linux (utility programs)
$
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