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2020-02-20qemu-img: Add --target-is-zero to convertDavid Edmondson1-2/+2
In many cases the target of a convert operation is a newly provisioned target that the user knows is blank (reads as zero). In this situation there is no requirement for qemu-img to wastefully zero out the entire device. Add a new option, --target-is-zero, allowing the user to indicate that an existing target device will return zeros for all reads. Signed-off-by: David Edmondson <david.edmondson@oracle.com> Message-Id: <20200205110248.2009589-2-david.edmondson@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2020-02-06qemu-img: Place the '-i aio' option in alphabetical orderJulia Suvorova1-2/+2
The '-i AIO' option was accidentally placed after '-n' and '-t'. Move it after '--flush-interval'. Signed-off-by: Julia Suvorova <jusual@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200205163008.204493-1-jusual@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
2020-02-03qemu-img-cmds.hx: Remove texinfo document fragmentsPeter Maydell1-53/+3
Now the qemu-img documentation has been converted to rST, we can remove the texinfo document fragments from qemu-img-cmds.hx, as they are no longer used. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Message-id: 20200124162606.8787-7-peter.maydell@linaro.org
2020-02-03qemu-img-cmds.hx: Add rST documentation fragmentsPeter Maydell1-1/+42
Add the rST versions of the documentation fragments. Once we've converted qemu-img.texi to rST we can delete the texi fragments; for the moment we leave them in place. (Commit created with the aid of emacs query-replace-regexp from "@var{\([^}]*\)}" to "\,(upcase \1))".) Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Message-id: 20200124162606.8787-5-peter.maydell@linaro.org
2020-01-30qemu-img: adds option to use aio engine for benchmarkingAarushi Mehta1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Aarushi Mehta <mehta.aaru20@gmail.com> Acked-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-id: 20200120141858.587874-13-stefanha@redhat.com Message-Id: <20200120141858.587874-13-stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2019-06-14qemu-img: Add salvaging mode to convertMax Reitz1-2/+2
This adds a salvaging mode (--salvage) to qemu-img convert which ignores read errors and treats the respective areas as containing only zeroes. This can be used for instance to at least partially recover the data from terminally corrupted qcow2 images. Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> Message-id: 20190507203508.18026-3-mreitz@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2019-04-12qemu-img: fix .hx and .texi disparityJohn Snow1-1/+1
It turns out that having options listed in three places continues to be a bad idea. I'm still toying with the idea of an improved infrastructure here, but in the meantime, another bandaid. There are three locations: (1) .hx file, formatted as texi (2) .hx file, formatted as human readable. (3) .texi file, as section headers, formatted as texi. You can compare the two summaries within the .hx file like so: Human-readable command summaries: `./qemu-img --help | grep 'Command syntax' -A14` Detokenized texi command summaries: `grep "@item" qemu-img-cmds.hx | sed -E 's|@var\{([^\}]*?)\}|\1|g'` You can compare the two separate texi summaries like so: Texi command summaries: `grep "@item" qemu-img-cmds.hx"` Texi command headers: grep -E "@item.*@var" qemu-img.texi | tail -14 Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-id: 20190409210655.777-1-jsnow@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
2018-07-30qemu-img: Add -C option for convert with copy offloadingFam Zheng1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2018-06-11qemu-img: Remove deprecated -s snapshot_id_or_name optionThomas Huth1-2/+2
It has been marked as deprecated since QEMU v2.0 already, so it is time now to finally remove it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Message-id: 1528288551-31641-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2018-05-20qemu-img-cmds.hx: add passive-aggressive noteJohn Snow1-0/+3
I'm kidding. It's very easy to forget there are per-command sections in the texi, and insane that we don't autogenerate those, too. Until then, leave a little post-it note in this .hx file until I find a way to delete it. Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
2018-05-20qemu-img: Make documentation between .texi and .hx consistentJohn Snow1-2/+2
These are also different and out of order for whatever reason. I'd like to automate this in the future, but for now let's put on the band-aid. In the case of resize, there were options missing from all three docstrings; the new string is based on the code. Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
2018-05-20qemu-img-commands.hx: argument ordering fixupsJohn Snow1-3/+3
The TEXI and string versions are actually identical, except for markup. We can probably automate this... but make the ordering the same until then. Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
2017-09-26qemu-img: add --shrink flag for resizePavel Butsykin1-2/+2
The flag is additional precaution against data loss. Perhaps in the future the operation shrink without this flag will be blocked for all formats, but for now we need to maintain compatibility with raw. Signed-off-by: Pavel Butsykin <pbutsykin@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170918124230.8152-2-pbutsykin@virtuozzo.com [mreitz: Added a missing space to a warning] Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2017-08-08qemu-img: Sort sub-command names in --helpEric Blake1-9/+13
'amend' and 'create' were not listed alphabetically; hoist them earlier. Separate the @end table block to make it easier to copy-and-paste the addition of future sub-commands. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20170803163353.19558-2-eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-07-18qemu-img: Check for backing image if specified during createJohn Snow1-2/+2
Or, rather, force the open of a backing image if one was specified for creation. Using a similar -unsafe option as rebase, allow qemu-img to ignore the backing file validation if possible. It may not always be possible, as in the existing case when a filesize for the new image was not specified. This is accomplished by shifting around the conditionals in bdrv_img_create, such that a backing file is always opened unless we provide BDRV_O_NO_BACKING. qemu-img is adjusted to pass this new flag when -u is provided to create. Sorry for the heinous looking diffstat, but it's mostly whitespace. Inspired by: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213786 Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2017-07-11qemu-img: add measure subcommandStefan Hajnoczi1-0/+6
The measure subcommand calculates the size required by a new image file. This can be used by users or management tools that need to allocate space on an LVM volume, SAN LUN, etc before creating or converting an image file. Suggested-by: Maor Lipchuk <mlipchuk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com> Message-id: 20170705125738.8777-8-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2017-05-29qemu-img: introduce --target-image-opts for 'convert' commandDaniel P. Berrange1-2/+2
The '--image-opts' flag indicates whether the source filename includes options. The target filename has to remain in the plain filename format though, since it needs to be passed to bdrv_create(). When using --skip-create though, it would be possible to use image-opts syntax. This adds --target-image-opts to indicate that the target filename includes options. Currently this mandates use of the --skip-create flag too. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170515164712.6643-4-berrange@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2017-05-29qemu-img: Fix documentation of convertFam Zheng1-2/+2
It got lost in commit a8d16f9ca "qemu-img: Update documentation for -U". Reported-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170515103551.31313-1-famz@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2017-05-11qemu-img: Update documentation for -UFam Zheng1-18/+18
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2017-04-27qemu-img: Document backing optionsMax Reitz1-4/+4
The create and convert subcommands have shorthands to set the backing_file and, in the case of create, the backing_fmt options for the new image. However, they have not been documented so far, which is remedied by this patch. Reported-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2017-04-07qemu-img: img_create does not support image-opts, fix docsJeff Cody1-2/+2
The documentation and help for qemu-img claims that 'qemu-img create' will take the '--image-opts' argument. This is not true, so this patch removes those claims. Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2017-02-28qemu-img: make convert asyncPeter Lieven1-2/+2
the convert process is currently completely implemented with sync operations. That means it reads one buffer and then writes it. No parallelism and each sync request takes as long as it takes until it is completed. This can be a big performance hit when the convert process reads and writes to devices which do not benefit from kernel readahead or pagecache. In our environment we heavily have the following two use cases when using qemu-img convert. a) reading from NFS and writing to iSCSI for deploying templates b) reading from iSCSI and writing to NFS for backups In both processes we use libiscsi and libnfs so we have no kernel cache. This patch changes the convert process to work with parallel running coroutines which can significantly improve performance for network storage devices: qemu-img (master) nfs -> iscsi 22.8 secs nfs -> ram 11.7 secs ram -> iscsi 12.3 secs qemu-img-async (8 coroutines, in-order write disabled) nfs -> iscsi 11.0 secs nfs -> ram 10.4 secs ram -> iscsi 9.0 secs This patches introduces 2 new cmdline parameters. The -m parameter to specify the number of coroutines running in parallel (defaults to 8). And the -W parameter to allow qemu-img to write to the target out of order rather than sequential. This improves performance as the writes do not have to wait for each other to complete. Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2016-09-20qemu-img: add skip option to ddReda Sallahi1-2/+2
This adds the skip option which allows qemu-img dd to skip a number of blocks before copying the input. A test case was added to test the skip option. Signed-off-by: Reda Sallahi <fullmanet@gmail.com> Message-id: 20160810141609.32727-1-fullmanet@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2016-09-20qemu-img: add the 'dd' subcommandReda Sallahi1-0/+6
This patch adds a basic dd subcommand analogous to dd(1) to qemu-img. For the start, this implements the bs, if, of and count options and requires both if and of to be specified (no stdin/stdout if not specified) and doesn't support tty, pipes, etc. The image format must be specified with -O for the output if the raw format is not the intended one. Two tests are added to test qemu-img dd. Signed-off-by: Reda Sallahi <fullmanet@gmail.com> Message-id: 20160810024312.14544-1-fullmanet@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> [mreitz: Moved test 158 to 170] Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2016-06-08qemu-img bench: Add --flush-intervalKevin Wolf1-2/+2
This options allows to flush the image periodically during write tests. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2016-06-08qemu-img bench: Implement -S (step size)Kevin Wolf1-2/+2
With this new option, qemu-img bench can be told to advance the current offset after each request by a different value than the buffer size. This is useful for controlling the conditions for cluster allocation in image formats (e.g. qcow2 cluster allocation with COW in front of the request, or COW areas that aren't overwritten immediately). Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2016-06-08qemu-img bench: Make start offset configurableKevin Wolf1-2/+2
This patch adds an option the specify the offset of the first request made by qemu-img bench. This allows to benchmark misaligned requests. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2016-06-08qemu-img bench: Sequential writesKevin Wolf1-2/+2
This extends qemu-img bench with an option that makes it use sequential writes instead of reads for the test run. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2016-06-08qemu-img benchKevin Wolf1-0/+6
This adds a qemu-img command that allows doing some simple benchmarks for the block layer without involving guest devices and a real VM. For the start, this implements only a test of sequential reads. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2016-02-22qemu-img: allow specifying image as a set of options argsDaniel P. Berrange1-22/+22
Currently qemu-img allows an image filename to be passed on the command line, but unless using the JSON format, it does not have a way to set any options except the format eg qemu-img info https://127.0.0.1/images/centos7.iso This adds a --image-opts arg that indicates that the positional filename should be interpreted as a full option string, not just a filename. qemu-img info --image-opts driver=https,url=https://127.0.0.1/images,sslverify=off This flag is mutually exclusive with the '-f' / '-F' flags. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2016-02-22qemu-img: add support for --object command line argDaniel P. Berrange1-22/+22
Allow creation of user creatable object types with qemu-img via a new --object command line arg. This will be used to supply passwords and/or encryption keys to the various block driver backends via the recently added 'secret' object type. # printf letmein > mypasswd.txt # qemu-img info --object secret,id=sec0,file=mypasswd.txt \ ...other info args... Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2014-11-03qemu-img: Add progress output for amendMax Reitz1-2/+2
Now that bdrv_amend_options() supports a status callback, use it to display a progress report. Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Benoît Canet <benoit.canet@nodalink.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Message-id: 1414404776-4919-3-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-11-03qemu-img: Specify backing file for commitMax Reitz1-2/+2
Introduce a new parameter for qemu-img commit which may be used to explicitly specify the backing file into which an image should be committed if the backing chain has more than a single layer. [Applied Eric Blake's qemu-img.texi documentation rewording --Stefan] Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-id: 1414159063-25977-12-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-11-03qemu-img: Enable progress output for commitMax Reitz1-2/+2
Implement progress output for the commit command by querying the progress of the block job. Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Message-id: 1414159063-25977-11-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-11-03qemu-img: Empty image after commitMax Reitz1-2/+2
After the top image has been committed, it should be emptied unless specified otherwise. Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Message-id: 1414159063-25977-10-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-08-22qemu-img: Allow cache mode specification for amendMax Reitz1-2/+2
qemu-img amend may extensively modify the target image, depending on the options to be amended (e.g. conversion to qcow2 compat level 0.10 from 1.1 for an image with many unallocated zero clusters). Therefore it makes sense to allow the user to specify the cache mode to be used. Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2014-08-22qemu-img: Allow source cache mode specificationMax Reitz1-8/+8
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>
2013-12-04qemu-img: add -l for snapshot in convertWenchao Xia1-2/+2
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>
2013-09-12block: Image file option amendmentMax Reitz1-0/+6
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>
2013-09-06qemu-img: add a "map" subcommandPaolo Bonzini1-0/+6
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>
2013-09-06add qemu-img convert -n option (skip target volume creation)Alexandre Derumier1-2/+2
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>
2013-02-22qemu-img: Add compare subcommandMiroslav Rezanina1-0/+6
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>
2013-02-22qemu-img: Add "Quiet mode" optionMiroslav Rezanina1-14/+14
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>
2013-02-22qemu-img: add json output option to the check commandFederico Simoncelli1-2/+2
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>
2012-10-24qemu-img: document 'info --backing-chain'Kashyap Chamarthy1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kashyap.cv@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2012-09-12qemu-img: Add json output option to the info command.Benoît Canet1-2/+2
This option --output=[human|json] make qemu-img info output on human or JSON representation at the choice of the user. example: { "snapshots": [ { "vm-clock-nsec": 637102488, "name": "vm-20120821145509", "date-sec": 1345553709, "date-nsec": 220289000, "vm-clock-sec": 20, "id": "1", "vm-state-size": 96522745 }, { "vm-clock-nsec": 28210866, "name": "vm-20120821154059", "date-sec": 1345556459, "date-nsec": 171392000, "vm-clock-sec": 46, "id": "2", "vm-state-size": 101208714 } ], "virtual-size": 1073741824, "filename": "snap.qcow2", "cluster-size": 65536, "format": "qcow2", "actual-size": 985587712, "dirty-flag": false } Signed-off-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2012-06-15qemu-img check -r for repairing imagesKevin Wolf1-2/+2
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>
2011-12-15Documentation: Add qemu-img -t parameter in man pageKevin Wolf1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-08-29qemu-img: Require larger zero areas for sparse handlingKevin Wolf1-2/+2
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>
2011-07-20Add missing documentation for qemu-img -pJes Sorensen1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>