nbdkit-cdi-plugin - Man Page

 nbdkit cdi [name=]NAME[:TAG|@DIGEST] [layer=N]

nbdkit-cdi-plugin (Containerized Data Importer plugin) is a plugin for nbdkit(1) which downloads a container image using podman-pull(1) and makes a single layer available over NBD.  The plugin is essentially a convenient wrapper around podman(1) and jq(1) and requires both tools to be installed.

Given a Containerized Data Importer (CDI) registry image containing a VM disk, you can export the whole layer using:

 $ nbdkit cdi quay.io/kubevirt/fedora-cloud-container-disk-demo

The layer exported over NBD is a tar file:

 $ nbdcopy nbd://localhost - | file -
 -: POSIX tar archive

To export only the VM disk image in this layer, combine this plugin with nbdkit-tar-filter(1).  In the example below the file exposed inside the tar archive is a qcow2 image so you can turn it into a raw NBD export of the virtual machine using nbdkit-qcow2dec-filter(1):

 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
 │ fedora-cloud-container-disk-demo layer=0 │
 │ (uncompressed tar file)                  │
 │ ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐ │
 │ │ ./disk/downloaded                    │ │
 │ │ (qcow2 image)                        │ │
 │ └──────────────────────────────────────┘ │
 └──────────────────────────────────────────┘

 $ nbdkit cdi \
         --filter=qcow2dec \
         --filter=tar tar-entry=./disk/downloaded \
         quay.io/kubevirt/fedora-cloud-container-disk-demo \
         --run 'nbdinfo "$uri"'
 export="":
     export-size: 4294967296 (4G)
     content: DOS/MBR boot sector
 [...]

[name=]NAME[:TAG|@DIGEST]

The name or URI of the container image.  This is passed to podman-pull(1).

name= is a magic config key and may be omitted in most cases. See "Magic parameters" in nbdkit(1).

layer=N

Export the N'th layer (instead of layer 0).

TMPDIR

A temporary copy of the layer is created in TMPDIR.  If this environment variable is not set then /var/tmp is used instead.

$plugindir/nbdkit-cdi-plugin.so

The plugin.

Use nbdkit --dump-config to find the location of $plugindir.

nbdkit-cdi-plugin first appeared in nbdkit 1.22.

nbdkit(1), nbdkit-plugin(3), nbdkit-qcow2dec-filter(1), nbdkit-tar-filter(1), podman(1), podman-pull(1), jq(1), https://github.com/kubevirt/containerized-data-importer/blob/master/doc/image-from-registry.md.

Richard W.M. Jones

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