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authorWenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2013-12-04 17:10:57 +0800
committerStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2013-12-04 15:19:00 +0100
commitef80654d0dc1edf2dd2a51feff8cc3e1102a6583 (patch)
tree8f6db2759358e08eff41f3962f169feb5ea52712 /qemu-img.texi
parent9c468a013fd0b0eb6154f8c5cfd2b1d498a86113 (diff)
qemu-img: add -l for snapshot in convert
Now qemu-img convert have similar options as qemu-nbd for internal snapshot. Signed-off-by: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-img.texi')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi
index da36975d70..be31191e43 100644
--- a/qemu-img.texi
+++ b/qemu-img.texi
@@ -46,7 +46,11 @@ is the destination disk image filename
is a comma separated list of format specific options in a
name=value format. Use @code{-o ?} for an overview of the options supported
by the used format or see the format descriptions below for details.
-
+@item snapshot_param
+is param used for internal snapshot, format is
+'snapshot.id=[ID],snapshot.name=[NAME]' or '[ID_OR_NAME]'
+@item snapshot_id_or_name
+is deprecated, use snapshot_param instead
@item -c
indicates that target image must be compressed (qcow format only)
@@ -179,10 +183,10 @@ Error on reading data
@end table
-@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}
+@item convert [-c] [-p] [-n] [-f @var{fmt}] [-t @var{cache}] [-O @var{output_fmt}] [-o @var{options}] [-s @var{snapshot_id_or_name}] [-l @var{snapshot_param}] [-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}
+Convert the disk image @var{filename} or a snapshot @var{snapshot_param}(@var{snapshot_id_or_name} is deprecated)
+to disk image @var{output_filename} using format @var{output_fmt}. It can be optionally compressed (@code{-c}
option) or use any format specific options like encryption (@code{-o} option).
Only the formats @code{qcow} and @code{qcow2} support compression. The