qemu-nbd: Removed deprecated --partition option

The option was deprecated in 4.0.0 (commit 0ae2d546); it's now been
long enough with no complaints to follow through with that process.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200123164650.1741798-3-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
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Eric Blake 2020-01-23 10:46:50 -06:00
parent 2e3cb7583a
commit 0bc16997f5
3 changed files with 24 additions and 173 deletions

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@ -72,13 +72,6 @@ driver options if ``--image-opts`` is specified.
Export the disk as read-only.
.. option:: -P, --partition=NUM
Deprecated: Only expose MBR partition *NUM*. Understands physical
partitions 1-4 and logical partition 5. New code should instead use
:option:`--image-opts` with the raw driver wrapping a subset of the
original image.
.. option:: -B, --bitmap=NAME
If *filename* has a qcow2 persistent bitmap *NAME*, expose
@ -224,14 +217,14 @@ a 1 megabyte subset of a raw file, using the export name 'subset':
-t -x subset -p 10810 \
--image-opts driver=raw,offset=1M,size=1M,file.driver=file,file.filename=file.raw
Serve a read-only copy of just the first MBR partition of a guest
image over a Unix socket with as many as 5 simultaneous readers, with
a persistent process forked as a daemon:
Serve a read-only copy of a guest image over a Unix socket with as
many as 5 simultaneous readers, with a persistent process forked as a
daemon:
::
qemu-nbd --fork --persistent --shared=5 --socket=/path/to/sock \
--partition=1 --read-only --format=qcow2 file.qcow2
--read-only --format=qcow2 file.qcow2
Expose the guest-visible contents of a qcow2 file via a block device
/dev/nbd0 (and possibly creating /dev/nbd0p1 and friends for