From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36363) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cb4ld-0008Lf-L8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 07:21:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cb4lb-0005Rk-Vo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 07:21:05 -0500 Received: from indium.canonical.com ([91.189.90.7]:42881) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cb4lb-0005Rf-PU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 07:21:03 -0500 Received: from loganberry.canonical.com ([91.189.90.37]) by indium.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76 #1 (Debian)) id 1cb4lZ-0002Y6-D0 for ; Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:21:01 +0000 Received: from loganberry.canonical.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by loganberry.canonical.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C36A22E819A for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2017 12:20:58 +0000 (UTC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:11:05 -0000 From: Thomas Huth <1662050@bugs.launchpad.net> Reply-To: Bug 1662050 <1662050@bugs.launchpad.net> Sender: bounces@canonical.com References: <20170206024535.14624.3001.malonedeb@soybean.canonical.com> Message-Id: <20170207121105.29722.91014.malone@gac.canonical.com> Errors-To: bounces@canonical.com Subject: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1662050] Re: qemu-img convert a overlay qcow2 image into a entire image List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Can't you simply do a "cp delta.qcow2 new.qcow2" ? -- = You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1662050 Title: qemu-img convert a overlay qcow2 image into a entire image Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: I have a base image file "base.qcow2" and a delta qcow2 image file "delta.qcow2" whose backing file is "base.qcow2". Now I use qemu-img to convert "delta.qcow2" and will get a new image file "new.qcow2" which is entire and equivalent to combination of "base.qcow2" and "delta.qcow2". In fact,I don't want to get a complete image.I just want to convert delta qcow2 image file "A" to a New delta overlay qcow2 image "B" which is equivalent to "A". So the "new.qcow2" is not what i want. I have to admit that this is not bug. Could you please take this as a new feature and enable qemu-img to convert qcow2 overlay itself? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1662050/+subscriptions