On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 03:44:26PM +0000, Nir Soffer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 5:42 PM Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On 04/12/2018 05:24 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > > I don't think we have nbd-server in RHEL, and in any case wouldn't it > > > be better to use qemu-nbd? > > > > > > You just start a new qemu-nbd process instead of faffing around with > > > configuration files, kill the qemu-nbd process when you're done, and > > > qemu-nbd supports qcow2 already. > > > > That, and qemu-nbd supports extensions such as NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS and > > NBD_OPT_STRUCTURED_REPLY that nbd-server has not implemented yet; a qemu > > NBD client talking to a qemu-nbd server is thus going to be able to take > > advantage of those extensions for better performance that would not be > > possible with a qemu NBD client talking to an nbd-server instance (at > > least, not without someone implementing the new features there). And > > this is no different from the situation where nbdkit as the server lacks > > several features; the current rhv-upload patches use a python plugin to > > nbdkit, which is implemented as serializing all requests; while using > > qemu-nbd as the server would allow parallel requests to be in flight > > simultaneously. > > > > Right, qemu-nbd will be better. > > The manual is not very useful - do we have examples somewhere?
For another project I'm currently running qemu-nbd like this to serve out the NBD root disk of a small development board that lacks SATA: qemu-nbd -t -f raw -x / /dev/VG/root & That will open a TCP connection on port 10809 which is the standard NBD port (but you can change the port with the -p option). For testing you can connect to the server using qemu-io (low level reads and writes of blocks) or using libguestfs, eg: guestfish --format=raw -a nbd://server:10809/ ><fs> run ><fs> list-filesystems ><fs> mount /dev/sda1 / ><fs> ll / Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs