qemu-nbd: support internal snapshot export

Now it is possible to directly export an internal snapshot, which
can be used to probe the snapshot's contents without qemu-img
convert.

Signed-off-by: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/qemu-nbd.texi b/qemu-nbd.texi
index 6055ec693b..5b55f769ac 100644
--- a/qemu-nbd.texi
+++ b/qemu-nbd.texi
@@ -27,7 +27,13 @@ Export QEMU disk image using NBD protocol.
 @item -P, --partition=@var{num}
   only expose partition @var{num}
 @item -s, --snapshot
-  use snapshot file
+  use @var{filename} as an external snapshot, create a temporary
+  file with backing_file=@var{filename}, redirect the write to
+  the temporary one
+@item -l, --load-snapshot=@var{snapshot_param}
+  load an internal snapshot inside @var{filename} and export it
+  as an read-only device, @var{snapshot_param} format is
+  'snapshot.id=[ID],snapshot.name=[NAME]' or '[ID_OR_NAME]'
 @item -n, --nocache
 @itemx --cache=@var{cache}
   set cache mode to be used with the file.  See the documentation of