[libvirt-users] mkfs fails on qemu-nbd device

[Tanmoy Sinha]

Correct no libvirt involved as such, will post this on qemu mailing list.

Regards
Tanmoy Sinha


On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 5:09 PM Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 16:22:27 +0530, Tanmoy Sinha wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am unable to figure out the issue here, when I try to create a
> filesystem
> > (ext4) on a virtual disk using qemu-nbd. This happens intermittently.
> >
> > Following is the sequence of commands:-
> >
> > $> qemu-img create -f qcow2 test.qcow2 30G
> >
> >
> > $> qemu-nbd --connect=/dev/nbd0 test.qcow2
>
> I think you forgot to use -f  qcow2 in this command line.
>
> Also the qemu mailing list will probably be better target for this
> question since your examples are not using libvirt.
>
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