Libguestfs - Dec 2015 - IRC question: can virt-sparsify output to stdout instead of a file?

01:19 < bananapie> without using a named pipe, can virt-sparsify output to
stdout instead of a file?
01:20 < bananapie> called from a bash script*
01:43 < bananapie> if I use a named pipe, it says 'Could not refresh
total sector count: Operation not permitted'
02:33 < bananapie> ok. I found the answer, virt-sparsify doesn't read
linearly, so named pipes doesn't work :(

No.

However, for copying mode (not --inplace), the longer answer is it
could be modified to make it work:

  https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/streaming-nbd-server/#content

Rich.

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