(In reply to Martin Pluskal from comment #4) > Why not do something like: > # qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 /var/lib/libvirt/images/sle12.qcow2 > > Step with nbd-client is not necessary that would indeed cover the most important use-case just not viewing/editing images over the network. Any chance to get qemu-nbd support the new style proto or nbd-client to support oldstyle? Otherwise, please close as WONTFIX.