This might interest/disgust/shock/scare(?!) people on this list: $ time ./nbdkit --filter=partition -U - linuxdisk . partition=1 --run 'qemu-img convert $nbd /var/tmp/ext2fs.img' real 0m1.314s user 0m0.424s sys 0m0.889s $ ls -lh /var/tmp/ext2fs.img -rw-r--r--. 1 rjones rjones 351M Feb 19 07:44 /var/tmp/ext2fs.img Code here: https://github.com/rwmjones/nbdkit/commit/6e7908c828e60f082d84d866070fe8406e6f2b04 Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v
