On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:13:15AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > How is that different from all the qemu-io commands?
qemu-io has no modes to just dumb the output without additional information / statistics or for the write case just take user input instead of a pattern. I actually tried to add raw arguments to qemu-io, which still worked ou ok for reads but started to get fairly ugly for the write. What I use in production right now is a trivial qemu-cat tool that just does the raw reads and writes, but I think adding it as a new sub command to qemu-img instead of another tool seems a bit cleaner. If you and Kevin or Anthony disagree and want the qemu-cat tool I can submit a patch for that instead.
