[Libguestfs] [PATCH nbdkit 0/9] nbd: Implement command= and socket-fd= parameters.

[Nir Soffer]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 10:17 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I fixed the deadlock - turned out to be an actual bug in the nbd
> plugin (see patch 8).
>
> I changed the command syntax so it's now:
>
>   nbdkit nbd command=qemu arg=-f arg=qcow2 arg=/path/to/disk.qcow2
>
> Nir wrote:
>
> 18:08 < nsoffer> rwmjones: regarding the nbd proxy patches, did you have specific flow that help us?
> 18:08 < nsoffer> rwmjones: or this is just a way to support qcow2 in the nbdkit pipeline?
>
> A bit of both - it's nice if nbdkit can "open" qcow2 files.

Having libqcow2 would be even better, but since we don't have it this
seems like a very useful
feature.