Re: [Xen-users] Materializing a Qcow image (qcow2raw) in Xen 3.2.1

[Stefan de Konink <skinkie@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Massimo Mongardini wrote:

> I am not sure that I am following you...
> you can't loopmount a qcow image at least not directly... plus it will
> be probably partitioned inside, so in order to mount it you will have to
> convert it to raw, losetup to a loop device, look at the partition
> table, and losetup again on the offset of the partition you want. (look
> at my other post [Xen-users] Creating a Bootable Image file) for this.
> What is your goal?

Your assumptions are wrong. I can qcow-create and use it. (no
partitioning) But converting this image back to raw is broken. I cannot
mount the resulting image with the conversion method nor the qcow2raw
method.


Stefan


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