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authorAnthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>2013-12-07 07:35:31 -0800
committerAnthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>2013-12-07 07:35:31 -0800
commit93531372f0f74bb4d886480c0c8aa0e4ca6f5423 (patch)
treebe13df35b2e689f031eef40bc06311b91bfc3548 /qemu-img.texi
parent0c0cb6a2378f937410f5f55cbf3e3b2c20f293c6 (diff)
parentac9524dc55dc32e492ac3e6fbc9785be7168f8a2 (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'stefanha/block' into staging
# By Paolo Bonzini (17) and others # Via Stefan Hajnoczi * stefanha/block: (48 commits) qemu-iotests: filter QEMU monitor \r\n aio: make aio_poll(ctx, true) block with no fds block: clean up bdrv_drain_all() throttling comments qcow2: use start_of_cluster() and offset_into_cluster() everywhere qemu-img: decrease progress update interval on convert qemu-img: round down request length to an aligned sector qemu-img: dynamically adjust iobuffer size during convert block/iscsi: set bs->bl.opt_transfer_length block: add opt_transfer_length to BlockLimits block/iscsi: set bdi->cluster_size qemu-img: fix usage instruction for qemu-img convert qemu-img: add support for skipping zeroes in input during convert qemu-nbd: add doc for option -f qemu-iotests: add test for snapshot in qemu-img convert qemu-img: add -l for snapshot in convert qemu-iotests: add 058 internal snapshot export with qemu-nbd case qemu-nbd: support internal snapshot export snapshot: distinguish id and name in load_tmp qemu-iotests: Split qcow2 only cases in 048 qemu-iotests: Clean up spaces in usage output ... Message-id: 1386347807-27359-1-git-send-email-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>
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diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi
index da36975d70..be31191e43 100644
--- a/qemu-img.texi
+++ b/qemu-img.texi
@@ -46,7 +46,11 @@ is the destination disk image filename
is a comma separated list of format specific options in a
name=value format. Use @code{-o ?} for an overview of the options supported
by the used format or see the format descriptions below for details.
-
+@item snapshot_param
+is param used for internal snapshot, format is
+'snapshot.id=[ID],snapshot.name=[NAME]' or '[ID_OR_NAME]'
+@item snapshot_id_or_name
+is deprecated, use snapshot_param instead
@item -c
indicates that target image must be compressed (qcow format only)
@@ -179,10 +183,10 @@ Error on reading data
@end table
-@item convert [-c] [-p] [-n] [-f @var{fmt}] [-t @var{cache}] [-O @var{output_fmt}] [-o @var{options}] [-s @var{snapshot_name}] [-S @var{sparse_size}] @var{filename} [@var{filename2} [...]] @var{output_filename}
+@item convert [-c] [-p] [-n] [-f @var{fmt}] [-t @var{cache}] [-O @var{output_fmt}] [-o @var{options}] [-s @var{snapshot_id_or_name}] [-l @var{snapshot_param}] [-S @var{sparse_size}] @var{filename} [@var{filename2} [...]] @var{output_filename}
-Convert the disk image @var{filename} or a snapshot @var{snapshot_name} to disk image @var{output_filename}
-using format @var{output_fmt}. It can be optionally compressed (@code{-c}
+Convert the disk image @var{filename} or a snapshot @var{snapshot_param}(@var{snapshot_id_or_name} is deprecated)
+to disk image @var{output_filename} using format @var{output_fmt}. It can be optionally compressed (@code{-c}
option) or use any format specific options like encryption (@code{-o} option).
Only the formats @code{qcow} and @code{qcow2} support compression. The