From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58269) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIlGN-0006N9-86 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2016 18:53:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIlGJ-0006TC-Cp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2016 18:53:07 -0500 Received: from ip35.imatronix.com ([200.73.112.45]:44683) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIlGI-00067e-VJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2016 18:53:03 -0500 Received: from [200.73.112.45] by ip35.imatronix.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1cIlEz-0003KJ-BI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2016 20:51:41 -0300 From: Christopher Pereira Message-ID: <53e52412-cd32-cb9e-2261-882a7b5b84ea@imatronix.cl> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 20:52:19 -0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Can qemu reopen image files? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hi, We are doing a "qemu-img convert" operation (qcow2, with compression) to shorten the backing-chain (in the middle of the backing-chain). In order to force qemu to reopen files, we do a save and restore operation. Is there a faster way to reopen image files using virsh or qemu? Best regards, Christopher