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authorAlexandre Derumier <aderumier@odiso.com>2013-09-02 19:07:24 +0100
committerStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2013-09-06 15:25:07 +0200
commitb2e10493c71160d88bb823cae9a92e806a79b9d6 (patch)
treee3baaffa48931c9106c5474553e95afc4d305f20 /qemu-img.texi
parentb3f3a30f387f34308b3e4d910a2824e69c34182f (diff)
add qemu-img convert -n option (skip target volume creation)
Add a -n option to skip volume creation on qemu-img convert. This is useful for targets such as rbd / ceph, where the target volume may already exist; we cannot always rely on qemu-img convert to create the image, as dependent on the output format, there may be parameters which are not possible to specify through the qemu-img convert command line. Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Derumier <aderumier@odiso.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-img.texi')
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi
index 69f1bda6ae..ad45a6d94d 100644
--- a/qemu-img.texi
+++ b/qemu-img.texi
@@ -96,6 +96,14 @@ Second image format
Strict mode - fail on on different image size or sector allocation
@end table
+Parameters to convert subcommand:
+
+@table @option
+
+@item -n
+Skip the creation of the target volume
+@end table
+
Command description:
@table @option
@@ -171,7 +179,7 @@ Error on reading data
@end table
-@item convert [-c] [-p] [-f @var{fmt}] [-t @var{cache}] [-O @var{output_fmt}] [-o @var{options}] [-s @var{snapshot_name}] [-S @var{sparse_size}] @var{filename} [@var{filename2} [...]] @var{output_filename}
+@item convert [-c] [-p] [-n] [-f @var{fmt}] [-t @var{cache}] [-O @var{output_fmt}] [-o @var{options}] [-s @var{snapshot_name}] [-S @var{sparse_size}] @var{filename} [@var{filename2} [...]] @var{output_filename}
Convert the disk image @var{filename} or a snapshot @var{snapshot_name} to disk image @var{output_filename}
using format @var{output_fmt}. It can be optionally compressed (@code{-c}
@@ -190,6 +198,11 @@ created as a copy on write image of the specified base image; the
@var{backing_file} should have the same content as the input's base image,
however the path, image format, etc may differ.
+If the @code{-n} option is specified, the target volume creation will be
+skipped. This is useful for formats such as @code{rbd} if the target
+volume has already been created with site specific options that cannot
+be supplied through qemu-img.
+
@item info [-f @var{fmt}] [--output=@var{ofmt}] [--backing-chain] @var{filename}
Give information about the disk image @var{filename}. Use it in