NAME

qemu-nbd - QEMU Disk Network Block Device Server

SYNOPSIS

qemu-nbd [OPTION]... filename qemu-nbd -d dev

DESCRIPTION

Export a QEMU disk image using the NBD protocol.

OPTIONS

filename is a disk image filename, or a set of block driver options if --image-opts is specified. dev is an NBD device.

--object type,id=id,...props...

Define a new instance of the type object class identified by id. See the qemu(1) manual page for full details of the properties supported. The common object types that it makes sense to define are the "secret" object, which is used to supply passwords and/or encryption keys, and the "tls-creds" object, which is used to supply TLS credentials for the qemu-nbd server.

-p, --port=port

The TCP port to listen on (default 10809)

-o, --offset=offset

The offset into the image

-b, --bind=iface

The interface to bind to (default 0.0.0.0)

-k, --socket=path

Use a unix socket with path path

--image-opts

Treat filename as a set of image options, instead of a plain filename. If this flag is specified, the -f flag should not be used, instead the '"format="' option should be set.

-f, --format=fmt

Force the use of the block driver for format fmt instead of auto-detecting

-r, --read-only

Export the disk as read-only

-P, --partition=num

Only expose partition num

-s, --snapshot

Use filename as an external snapshot, create a temporary file with backing_file= filename, redirect the write to the temporary one

-l, --load-snapshot=snapshot_param

Load an internal snapshot inside filename and export it as an read-only device, snapshot_param format is 'snapshot.id=[ID],snapshot.name=[NAME]' or '[ID_OR_NAME]'

-n, --nocache

--cache=cache

The cache mode to be used with the file. See the documentation of the emulator's "-drive cache=..." option for allowed values.

--aio=aio

Set the asynchronous I/O mode between threads (the default) and native (Linux only).

--discard=discard

Control whether discard (also known as trim or unmap) requests are ignored or passed to the filesystem. discard is one of ignore (or off), unmap (or on). The default is ignore.

--detect-zeroes=detect-zeroes

Control the automatic conversion of plain zero writes by the OS to driver-specific optimized zero write commands. detect-zeroes is one of off, on or unmap. unmap converts a zero write to an unmap operation and can only be used if discard is set to unmap. The default is off.

-c, --connect=dev

Connect filename to NBD device dev

-d, --disconnect

Disconnect the device dev

-e, --shared=num

Allow up to num clients to share the device (default 1)

-t, --persistent

Don't exit on the last connection

-x NAME, --export-name=NAME

Set the NBD volume export name. This switches the server to use the new style NBD protocol negotiation

--tls-creds=ID

Enable mandatory TLS encryption for the server by setting the ID of the TLS credentials object previously created with the --object option.

-v, --verbose

Display extra debugging information

-h, --help

Display this help and exit

-V, --version

Display version information and exit

-T, --trace [[enable=]pattern][,events=file][,file=file]

Specify tracing options.

SEE ALSO

qemu(1), qemu-img(1)

AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 2006 Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.