-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-02-17 at 23:40 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 17 February 2008 23:08:14 Carlos E. R. wrote:
See? There is no need to warn about wrong kernel version, use any network, etc. I did it. It just took some time for me to think it out, I thought I would have to use the device mapper when I discovered the -o option for losetup.
Sure, but that will only work when you haven't split the disks. losetup doesn't know about split disks
Two disks on the same image, you mean? Yes, could be a problem. It should be solvable, though: the image even has a standard partition table with disk sizes et al. It could be a problem as well if the image has a snapshot point, I suppose.
I don't know why vmware chose to use nbd devices. My guess is that their magic needed to stream split and sparse disks together shouldn't go into a kernel module, and with the nbd it can all be done in user space. But that's just a guess. It was clearly done a long time ago
Yes, 1998.
My point was just that your talk of viruses and trojans was just so much twaddle.
I know that I exaggerated, and I did it on purpose, because it smells wrong to me. Surely there are other methods in linux to do that. It even complains that the kernel is too modern and thus the script can fail! - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHuMJVtTMYHG2NR9URApC+AJ9fosoQOQyt7y1fENtbZwbcU11r+ACggWvs U50qzPHVNRHsAFJn1fdz/xQ= =qejd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org