Many qemu-img subcommands only read the source file(s) once. For these
use cases, a full write-back cache is unnecessary and mainly clutters
host cache memory. Though this is generally no concern as cache memory
is freely available and can be scaled by the host OS, it may become a
concern with thin provisioning.
For these cases, it makes sense to allow users to freely specify the
source cache mode (e.g. use no cache at all).
This commit adds a new switch (-T) for the qemu-img subcommands check,
compare, convert and rebase to specify the cache to be used for source
images (the backing file in case of rebase).
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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>
This patch adds the "amend" option to qemu-img which allows changing
image options on existing image files. It also adds the generic bdrv
implementation which is basically just a wrapper for the image format
specific function.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This command dumps the metadata of an entire chain, in either tabular or JSON
format.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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>
This patch adds new qemu-img subcommand that compares content of two disk
images.
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
There can be a need to turn output to stdout off. This patch adds a -q option
that enable "Quiet mode". In Quiet mode, only errors are printed out.
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This option --output=[human|json] makes qemu-img check output a human
or JSON representation at the choice of the user.
Signed-off-by: Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kashyap.cv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The QED block driver already provides the functionality to not only
detect inconsistencies in images, but also fix them. However, this
functionality cannot be manually invoked with qemu-img, but the
check happens only automatically during bdrv_open().
This adds a -r switch to qemu-img check that allows manual invocation
of an image repair.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
By default, require 4k of consecutive zero bytes for qemu-img to make the
output file sparse by not issuing a write request for the zeroed parts. Add an
-S option to allow users to tune this setting.
This helps to avoid situations where a lot of zero sectors and data sectors are
mixed and qemu-img tended to issue many tiny 512 byte writes.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
qemu-img currently writes disk images using writeback and filling
up the cache buffers which are then flushed by the kernel preventing
other processes from accessing the storage.
This is particularly bad in cluster environments where time-based
algorithms might be in place and accessing the storage within
certain timeouts is critical.
This patch adds the option to choose a cache method when writing
disk images.
Signed-off-by: Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This adds the basic infrastructure for supporting progress output
on the command line, as well as progress support for qemu-img commands
'rebase' and 'convert'.
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
In order to backup snapshots, created from QCOW2 iamge, we want to copy snapshots out of QCOW2 disk to a seperate storage.
The following patch adds a new option in "qemu-img": qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O qcow2 -s snapshot_name src_img bck_img.
Right now, it only supports to copy the full snapshot, delta snapshot is on the way.
Changes from V1: all the comments from Kevin are addressed:
Add read-only checking
Fix coding style
Change the name from bdrv_snapshot_load to bdrv_snapshot_load_tmp
Signed-off-by: Disheng Su <edison@cloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Replace rebase by resize in documentation of resize command.
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This patch adds a 'resize' command to grow/shrink disk images. This
allows changing the size of disk images without copying to a new image
file. Currently only raw files support resize.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The option was implemented in e53dbee0, but I forgot documenting it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
This adds a rebase subcommand to qemu-img which allows to change the backing
file of an image.
In default mode, both the current and the new backing file need to exist, and
after the rebase, the COW image is guaranteed to have the same guest visible
content as before. To achieve this, old and new backing file are compared and,
if necessary, data is copied from the old backing file into the COW image.
With -u an unsafe mode is enabled that doesn't require the backing files to
exist. It merely changes the backing file reference in the COW image. This is
useful for renaming or moving the backing file. The user is responsible to make
sure that the new backing file has no changes compared to the old one, or
corruption may occur.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The old options are still supported for compatibility, but they are
inconsistent (for example create -b vs. convert -B for backing files) and
incomplete (-F only exists for create) which tends to confuse people. Remove
all references to the old options from the documentation to guide users to the
more consistent -o options.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Use hxtool to generate the 'command syntax' section of qemu-img's help
message, and the corresponding section of the texinfo documentation.
This has the side-effect of adding 'check' to this list of commands in
the texinfo documentation.
Signed-off-by: Stuart Brady <stuart.brady@gmail.com>
