questions about qvm-block

[pixel fairy]

how do you specify which device to detach? this is for detaching disk images.

is there an easy way to know what device it attached as? "ls /dev/xvd*" before and after seems messy to me, but if thats the way, im not too worried about it.

is attaching qcow2 images not supported because of oversight or fear of parsing a malicious qcow2 header? 

[Andrew David Wong]

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On 2016-11-16 10:20, pixel fairy wrote:
> how do you specify which device to detach? this is for detaching disk
> images.
>

To detach all block devices from a VM:

qvm-block -d <vm-name>

To detach specific ones:

qvm-block -d <device-vm-name>:<device>

> is there an easy way to know what device it attached as? "ls /dev/xvd*"
> before and after seems messy to me, but if thats the way, im not too
> worried about it.
>

I think the best way is with:

qvm-block -l

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
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