Comments on: Mounting KVM qcow2 qemu disk images

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:47:40 +0000

Thanks for this. It helped a lot when I was hectically server swapping!

By: Jarp

Jarp — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:08:54 +0000

Great!

It worked for me in debian squeeze with an vmdk image.
I ran partprobe /dev/nbd0 after qemu-nbd, then
I was able to mount “mount /dev/nbd0p1 /mnt”

By: Paul M

Paul M — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:10:27 +0000

p.s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qcow

By: Paul M

Paul M — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:10:04 +0000

thanks for this, it proved helpful during my migration of a bunch of xen machines from an old to a new server.

I fixed up the wikipedia entry for qcow, combining it with qcow2, and drew on your blog for reference.

By: Fabian Thommen

Fabian Thommen — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:06:30 +0000

It works for me on Ubuntu LTS 10.4! Thanks.

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By: Troy Ready

Troy Ready — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:50:49 +0000

Thanks for this very informative post! Just wanted to leave a note that on my Ubuntu 8.10 machine, I had to use kvm-nbd instead of qemu-nbd. I assume this is because we only have kvm packages installed, and I suspect that other will experience the same thing.

By: magicben

magicben — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:04:48 +0000

# nbd-client localhost 1024 /dev/nb0
Error: Can not open NBD: No such file or directory

-> sudo nbd-client localhost 1024 /dev/nbd0
while work. the error in nbd-client come from it need some privilege

using real nbd-client on remote computer work with qemu-nbd aswell ofc.

By: alfplayer

alfplayer — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:03:19 +0000

This worked for me on karmic RC: http://tjworld.net/wiki/Linux/MountQemuQcowImages

By: Henrik Bach

Henrik Bach — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:10:27 +0000

If you’re running ubuntu, install nbd-client before issuing above commands.

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By: Marco Gabriel

Marco Gabriel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:03:42 +0000

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