On 06/06/2011 01:48 PM, Florian Lindner wrote: > Hellio, > > What is the way to achieve something like that: > > I want to mount an existing partition /dev/sdX from within a virtual machine. > If possible I don't want to clone the partition but rather use it like a > template and just record the writes (or maybe simply discard them).
Sounds like a perfect use case for a qcow2 file with /dev/sdX as the backing file. https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/tip-using-a-backing-file-to-record-file-and-registry-changes-part-1/ -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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