[Qemu-devel] qemu-img qcow and raw format

Hello, I'm currently developing an OS deployment tool similar to G4U (ghost for unix). This is a very basic tool - boot an initrd - configure network - ssh deployment-server cat image.dd /dev/sda - reboot I'm using qemu to test my initrd and deployment tool and i would like replace my

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img qcow and raw format

Hello Creating a temp file maybe? I'm using qemu-img from an initrd so i can't create big file into a temps file. Creating a temp file may cause deployment to be 2 times longer: - ssh ... cat image.dd temp_file - qemu-img convert temp_file -O raw /dev/sda Cheers, François