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...os, it's not interesting to me. I would like to my copy to be off-system, and was hoping to use the NBD interface to accomplish that. So I tried this (a variant of the above), working on the same system because it's easier: qemu-img create -f qcow2 /tmp/dsk.test.qcow2 qemu-nbd -f qcow2 -p11112 /tmp/dsk.test.qcow2 nbd-client localhost 11112 /dev/nbd2 virsh dumpxml my_domain > my_domain.xml virsh undefine my_domain virsh blockcopy --domain my_domain --wait --verbose --finish virsh define my_domain.xml nbd-client -d /dev/nbd2 and the qemu-nbd process exits, as I wish. I presume at this...

...need to provide a size here: $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 /tmp/dsk.test.qcow2 1G For the rest, I'm afraid I still didn't manage time to test the NBD scenario to give a meaningful response here. I'll let the others who deal with NBD more often respond to it. > qemu-nbd -f qcow2 -p11112 /tmp/dsk.test.qcow2 > nbd-client localhost 11112 /dev/nbd2 > virsh dumpxml my_domain > my_domain.xml > virsh undefine my_domain > virsh blockcopy --domain my_domain --wait --verbose --finish > virsh define my_domain.xml > nbd-client -d /dev/nbd2 > > and the qemu-nbd proc...

I am experimenting with the blockcopy command, and after figuring out how to integrate qemu-nbd, nbd-client and dumpxml/undefine/blockcopy/define/et. al. I have one remaining question: What's the point? The "replication" disk file is not, from what I can ascertain, bootable. I expect this operation to create a pristine copy of my source qcow2 file (at a given point in time)

...e it up however you'd like, including by NBD. > and was hoping to use the NBD interface to accomplish > that. So I tried this (a variant of the above), working on the same > system because it's easier: > > qemu-img create -f qcow2 /tmp/dsk.test.qcow2 > qemu-nbd -f qcow2 -p11112 /tmp/dsk.test.qcow2 > nbd-client localhost 11112 /dev/nbd2 > virsh dumpxml my_domain > my_domain.xml > virsh undefine my_domain > virsh blockcopy --domain my_domain --wait --verbose --finish Missing a destination? I'm guessing you meant /dev/nbd2 as the pre-existing destination...

...suitable for a qcow2 destination; the problem is that we don't need double-munging. So telling the blockcopy operation to "knock it off" seems to make it treat the NBD device the same as it does a simple disk file. Yea! So I find that the following: >> qemu-nbd -f qcow2 -p11112 /tmp/dsk.test.qcow2 >> nbd-client localhost 11112 /dev/nbd2 >> virsh dumpxml my_domain > my_domain.xml >> virsh undefine my_domain >> virsh blockcopy --domain my_domain --wait --verbose --finish only requires the addition of "--raw" to the above command. Or, ra...