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    nbd: Introduce NBD named exports. · 1d45f8b5
    Laurent Vivier authored
    
    
    This patch allows to connect Qemu using NBD protocol to an nbd-server
    using named exports.
    
    For instance, if on the host "isoserver", in /etc/nbd-server/config, you have:
    
    [generic]
    [debian-500-ppc-netinst]
            exportname = /ISO/debian-500-powerpc-netinst.iso
    [Fedora-10-ppc-netinst]
            exportname = /ISO/Fedora-10-ppc-netinst.iso
    
    You can connect to it, using:
    
        qemu -cdrom nbd:isoserver:exportname=debian-500-ppc-netinst
        qemu -cdrom nbd:isoserver:exportname=Fedora-10-ppc-netinst
    
    NOTE: you need at least nbd-server 2.9.18
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLaurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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