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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2020-02-06 18:59:12 +0000
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2020-02-06 18:59:12 +0000
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/ericb/tags/pull-nbd-2020-02-06' into staging
nbd patches for 2020-02-06 - Allow setting NBD description from QMP for parity with qemu-nbd - Remove deprecated 'qemu-nbd --partition' # gpg: Signature made Thu 06 Feb 2020 12:50:46 GMT # gpg: using RSA key 71C2CC22B1C4602927D2F3AAA7A16B4A2527436A # gpg: Good signature from "Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>" [full] # gpg: aka "Eric Blake (Free Software Programmer) <ebb9@byu.net>" [full] # gpg: aka "[jpeg image of size 6874]" [full] # Primary key fingerprint: 71C2 CC22 B1C4 6029 27D2 F3AA A7A1 6B4A 2527 436A * remotes/ericb/tags/pull-nbd-2020-02-06: qemu-nbd: Removed deprecated --partition option docs: Fix typo in qemu-nbd -P replacement nbd: Allow description when creating NBD blockdev Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/docs/interop/qemu-nbd.rst b/docs/interop/qemu-nbd.rst
index df7b6b9..e548403 100644
--- a/docs/interop/qemu-nbd.rst
+++ b/docs/interop/qemu-nbd.rst
@@ -72,13 +72,6 @@ driver options if ``--image-opts`` is specified.
Export the disk as read-only.
-.. option:: -P, --partition=NUM
-
- Deprecated: Only expose MBR partition *NUM*. Understands physical
- partitions 1-4 and logical partition 5. New code should instead use
- :option:`--image-opts` with the raw driver wrapping a subset of the
- original image.
-
.. option:: -B, --bitmap=NAME
If *filename* has a qcow2 persistent bitmap *NAME*, expose
@@ -224,14 +217,14 @@ a 1 megabyte subset of a raw file, using the export name 'subset':
-t -x subset -p 10810 \
--image-opts driver=raw,offset=1M,size=1M,file.driver=file,file.filename=file.raw
-Serve a read-only copy of just the first MBR partition of a guest
-image over a Unix socket with as many as 5 simultaneous readers, with
-a persistent process forked as a daemon:
+Serve a read-only copy of a guest image over a Unix socket with as
+many as 5 simultaneous readers, with a persistent process forked as a
+daemon:
::
qemu-nbd --fork --persistent --shared=5 --socket=/path/to/sock \
- --partition=1 --read-only --format=qcow2 file.qcow2
+ --read-only --format=qcow2 file.qcow2
Expose the guest-visible contents of a qcow2 file via a block device
/dev/nbd0 (and possibly creating /dev/nbd0p1 and friends for