Qemu/qemu-img raw.img to qcow2

### version 

lake@lake-Latitude-5491:~/qemu$ qemu-system-i386  -version 
QEMU emulator version 2.11.1(Debian 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.10)
Copyright (c) 2003-2017 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers

lake@lake-Latitude-5491:~/qemu$ qemu-img  -V
qemu-img version 2.11.1(Debian 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.10)
Copyright (c) 2003-2017 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
lake@lake-Latitude-5491:~/qemu$ 
 

##########  qemu-img

$qemu-img create -f raw disk.img 200M
Formatting 'disk.img', fmt=raw size=209715200

lake@lake-Latitude-5491:~/qemu$ mkfs.ext4    -F disk.img 
mke2fs 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018)
Discarding device blocks: done                            
Creating filesystem with 204800 1k blocks and 51200 inodes
Filesystem UUID: c9a1e9ee-d8fe-4eb6-950b-d07dc40f518a
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
    8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729

Allocating group tables: done                            
Writing inode tables: done                            
Creating journal (4096 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done 

lake@lake-Latitude-5491:~/qemu$ qemu-img  info  disk.img 
image: disk.img
file format: raw
virtual size: 200M (209715200 bytes)
disk size: 328K

lake@lake-Latitude-5491:~/qemu$ qemu-img resize disk.img   +2G
WARNING: Image format was not specified for 'disk.img' and probing guessed raw.
         Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, write operations on block 0 will be restricted.
         Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions.
Image resized.

########  install Win7PE to harddisk 

lake@lake-Latitude-5491:~/qemu$ qemu-system-i386 -hda disk.img   -cdrom Win7PE.iso -boot d
WARNING: Image format was not specified for 'disk.img' and probing guessed raw.
         Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, write operations on block 0 will be restricted.
         Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions.
### boot from hard disk 

lake@lake-Latitude-5491:~/qemu$ qemu-system-i386 -hda disk.img   -cdrom Win7PE.iso -boot c

lake@lake-Latitude-5491:~/qemu$ qemu-img  info  disk.img 
image: disk.img
file format: raw
virtual size: 2.2G (2357198848 bytes)
disk size: 331M

Convert raw disk to qcow2

lake@lake-Latitude-5491:~/qemu$ 
lake@lake-Latitude-5491:~/qemu$ qemu-img convert -c -O qcow2 disk.img  disk.qcow2

lake@lake-Latitude-5491:~/qemu$ 
lake@lake-Latitude-5491:~/qemu$ 
lake@lake-Latitude-5491:~/qemu$ qemu-img  info  disk.qcow2 
image: disk.qcow2
file format: qcow2
virtual size: 2.2G (2357198848 bytes)
disk size: 253M
cluster_size: 65536
Format specific information:
    compat: 1.1
    lazy refcounts: false
    refcount bits: 16
    corrupt: false 

qcow2 mount 

Refer to 

https://gist.github.com/shamil/62935d9b456a6f9877b5

https://blahcat.github.io/2018/01/07/building-a-debian-stretch-qemu-image-for-aarch64/

 1.  nbd  / Ubuntu Dedian

nbd module is not shipped with Fedora based distributions including centos/fedora/rhel. RedHat decided against shipping nbd kernel module due to security reasons. nbd module is only available on debian distributions.

Ubuntu 

$ sudo apt install nbd-client
$ sudo modprobe nbd max_part=8
$ sudo qemu-nbd --connect=/dev/nbd0 disk.qcow2
$ mkdir mnt
$ sudo mount /dev/nbd0p1 mnt
$ cp mnt/initrd.img-4.9.0-4-arm64 mnt/vmlinuz-4.9.0-4-arm64 .
$ sync
$ sudo umount /dev/nbd0p1
$ sudo nbd-client -d /dev/nbd0

2. guestmount  libguestfs-tools

guestmount -a path_to_image.qcow2 -i --ro /mount_point # safe, read only
guestmount -a path_to_image.qcow2 -i /mount_point # use only on not running vm image

guestmount utility can be found in libguestfs-tools package (on Debian and RHEL).

Change root password

https://tipsmake.com/use-guestfish-to-reset-the-forgotten-root-password-for-the-virtual-machine-in-qcow2-format-on-kvm

## check partition

virt-inspector     /home/lake/debian-10-openstack-arm64.qcow2