From f58c7b354595228e10f023e86b80a7bab527186a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ths Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:53:49 +0000 Subject: New qemu-img convert -B option, by Marc Bevand. git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@4672 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162 --- qemu-img.texi | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'qemu-img.texi') diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi index 44c4de8743..1c0504bcfa 100644 --- a/qemu-img.texi +++ b/qemu-img.texi @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ The following commands are supported: @table @option @item create [-e] [-6] [-b @var{base_image}] [-f @var{fmt}] @var{filename} [@var{size}] @item commit [-f @var{fmt}] @var{filename} -@item convert [-c] [-e] [-6] [-f @var{fmt}] [-O @var{output_fmt}] @var{filename} [@var{filename2} [...]] @var{output_filename} +@item convert [-c] [-e] [-6] [-f @var{fmt}] [-O @var{output_fmt}] [-B @var{output_base_image}] @var{filename} [@var{filename2} [...]] @var{output_filename} @item info [-f @var{fmt}] @var{filename} @end table @@ -21,7 +21,11 @@ Command parameters: @item base_image is the read-only disk image which is used as base for a copy on write image; the copy on write image only stores the modified data - +@item output_base_image +forces the output image to be created as a copy on write +image of the specified base image; @code{output_base_image} should have the same +content as the input's base image, however the path, image format, etc may +differ @item fmt is the disk image format. It is guessed automatically in most cases. The following formats are supported: -- cgit v1.2.1