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| author | ths <ths@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162> | 2008-06-05 21:53:49 +0000 |
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| committer | ths <ths@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162> | 2008-06-05 21:53:49 +0000 |
| commit | f58c7b354595228e10f023e86b80a7bab527186a (patch) | |
| tree | 5cf33990d51f7f9e38cddcdef9cc30cfa194eae5 /qemu-img.texi | |
| parent | ff7ab59f40e12941530cb1d9ecc9b873d900b132 (diff) | |
New qemu-img convert -B option, by Marc Bevand.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@4672 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-img.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-img.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi index 44c4de8743..1c0504bcfa 100644 --- a/qemu-img.texi +++ b/qemu-img.texi @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ The following commands are supported: @table @option @item create [-e] [-6] [-b @var{base_image}] [-f @var{fmt}] @var{filename} [@var{size}] @item commit [-f @var{fmt}] @var{filename} -@item convert [-c] [-e] [-6] [-f @var{fmt}] [-O @var{output_fmt}] @var{filename} [@var{filename2} [...]] @var{output_filename} +@item convert [-c] [-e] [-6] [-f @var{fmt}] [-O @var{output_fmt}] [-B @var{output_base_image}] @var{filename} [@var{filename2} [...]] @var{output_filename} @item info [-f @var{fmt}] @var{filename} @end table @@ -21,7 +21,11 @@ Command parameters: @item base_image is the read-only disk image which is used as base for a copy on write image; the copy on write image only stores the modified data - +@item output_base_image +forces the output image to be created as a copy on write +image of the specified base image; @code{output_base_image} should have the same +content as the input's base image, however the path, image format, etc may +differ @item fmt is the disk image format. It is guessed automatically in most cases. The following formats are supported: |