Re: Converting images to stdout

2023-11-22 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 05:23:27PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > > I'm interested in this use case, and I think that the method would be > > as simple as this: > > > > 1. Decide a cluster size for the output qcow2 file. > > 2. Read the input file once to determine which clusters need to be > >

Re: Converting images to stdout

2023-11-20 Thread Eric Blake
On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 06:48:09PM +0100, Alberto Garcia wrote: > Hi, > > I haven't written here in a while :) but I have something small that I > would like to discuss. > > Using qemu-img to convert an image and writing the result directly to > stdout is a question that has already been raised

Converting images to stdout

2023-11-16 Thread Alberto Garcia
Hi, I haven't written here in a while :) but I have something small that I would like to discuss. Using qemu-img to convert an image and writing the result directly to stdout is a question that has already been raised in the past (see [1] for an example) and it's clear that it's generally not