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

2007-04-12 Thread Francois Visconte
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

2007-04-12 Thread Gildas
Creating a temp file maybe? Cheers, Gildas 2007/4/12, Francois Visconte [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

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

2007-04-12 Thread Francois Visconte
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

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

2007-04-12 Thread Ben Taylor
Francois Visconte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2007-04-12 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 10:09 +0200, Francois Visconte wrote: qemu-img: Could not open 'deploy-in.fifo' Is there any way to achieve this goal ? It strikes me that it's likely qemu-img assumes it can seek around in the file it is reading from, so perhaps you'll have to look at modifying