(In reply to Martin Pluskal from comment #2) > qemu-nbd has nothing to do with nbd package, package nbd contains nbd > server, which is not involved at all when qemu-nbd is used. > > Furthermore you don't need nbd installed when working with qemu-nbd /usr/sbin/nbd-client is part of the nbd package. Are there other clients to use the NBD exported by qemu-nbd? maybe I should have added earlier Steps To Reproduce: qemu-nbd /path/to/some.qcow2 nbd-client localhost 10809 /dev/nbd0 mount -o loop,offset=$((2048*512)) /dev/nbd0 /mnt/