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On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 12:01:33 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: |
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> qemu-nbd is a utility to act as a NBD server to allow the Linux kernel |
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> to be an NBD client to access qcow(2) image files. |
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> qemu-nbd is not /needed/ for normal QEMU operation. |
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No, but since it is provided by the ebuild, the ebuild should check that |
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the target system is capable of supporting it. The qemu ebuild already |
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spits out warnings about missing kernel options, not all of them |
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essential, so why not this one too? |
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Neil Bothwick |
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I thought I saw the light at the end of the tunnel... |
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but it was just some sod with a torch bringing me more work! |