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qemu
, libvirtd
, virt-manager
, and possibly qemu-arch-extra
)
n.b., to use virt-manager
, the user needs to be part of the libvirt
group:
# gpasswd -a $(whoami) libvirt
Qemu nbd allows to connect qcow2 files with a block device
# modprobe --first-time nbd # qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 <path of the .qcow2 file>
Now /dev/mbd0
is a block device connected to the qcow2 file.
To disconnect use:
# qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0
In Windows share using the GUI and in Linux open the following path with your explorer:
smb://<ip address>/<share name>
It needs the gvfs-smb
package. At the moment I managed to make it work only with an empty password.