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mgutt
Asked: 2021-11-11 00:38:09 +0800 CST

Is it possible to pipe qemu-img into SSH target?

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I tried the following command, but only an empty file is created on the target and the command stays open

qemu-img convert -f raw -O vmdk /dev/sda1 - | ssh foo@bar "cat > /home/foo/foobar.vmdk"

Note: sshfs is not available.

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1 Answers

  1. You want to use tee instead of cat.

    tee - read from standard input and write to standard output and files

    qemu-img convert -f raw -O vmdk /dev/sda1 - | ssh foo@bar "tee /home/foo/foobar.vmdk > /dev/null"
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