qvm-pool – manage pools

Synopsis

qvm-pool [-h] [–verbose] [–quiet] [–help-drivers] [-o options] [-l | -i NAME | -a NAME DRIVER | -r NAME]

Options

--help, -h

Show this help message and exit

--quiet, -q

Be quiet

--verbose, -v

Increase verbosity

--help-drivers

List all known drivers with their options. The listed driver options can be used with the -o options switch.

-o options

Comma separated list of driver options. See --help-drivers for a list of driver options.

--list, -l

List all pools.

--info NAME, -i NAME

Show information about a pool

--add NAME DRIVER, -a NAME DRIVER

Add a pool. For supported drivers and their options see --help-drivers. Most of the drivers expect some kind of options.

--remove NAME, -r NAME

Remove a pool. This removes only the information about the pool in qubes.xml, but does not delete any content (FIXME: is it really true for all pool drivers?).

--set NAME, -s NAME

Modify a pool. This set options of a pool. Use --o to specify actual modifications.

Examples

Create a pool backed by the file driver.

qvm-pool -o dir_path=/mnt/foo -a foo file

Authors

Bahtiar `kalkin-` Gadimov <bahtiar at gadimov dot de>