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From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: KVM call agenda for Mar 16
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:45:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100316104537.GH23617@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B9F5F8A.4080105@redhat.com>

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:38:02PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/16/2010 12:31 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >>Polling loops are an indication that something is wrong.
> >>     
> >Except when people suggest they are the right answer, qcow high
> >watermark ;-P
> >   
> 
> I liked Anthony's suggestion of an lvm2 block format driver.  No polling.

Doesn't that require giving QEMU privileges to perform LVM operations which
implies QEMU having CAP_SYS_ADMIN  ?


Daniel
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From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call agenda for Mar 16
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:45:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100316104537.GH23617@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B9F5F8A.4080105@redhat.com>

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:38:02PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/16/2010 12:31 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >>Polling loops are an indication that something is wrong.
> >>     
> >Except when people suggest they are the right answer, qcow high
> >watermark ;-P
> >   
> 
> I liked Anthony's suggestion of an lvm2 block format driver.  No polling.

Doesn't that require giving QEMU privileges to perform LVM operations which
implies QEMU having CAP_SYS_ADMIN  ?


Daniel
-- 
|: Red Hat, Engineering, London    -o-   http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :|
|: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :|
|: http://autobuild.org        -o-         http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :|
|: GnuPG: 7D3B9505  -o-   F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-16 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-16  7:01 KVM call agenda for Mar 16 Chris Wright
2010-03-16  7:01 ` [Qemu-devel] " Chris Wright
2010-03-16  9:18 ` Juan Quintela
2010-03-16  9:18   ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2010-03-16  9:29   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-16  9:29     ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-16  9:43     ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-16  9:43       ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-16 10:31       ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-16 10:31         ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-16 10:38         ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-16 10:38           ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-16 10:45           ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-16 10:45             ` [Qemu-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-16 10:45           ` Daniel P. Berrange [this message]
2010-03-16 10:45             ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-16 11:16             ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-16 11:16               ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-16 15:05             ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-16 15:05               ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-03-16 15:23               ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-16 15:23                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-16 15:46                 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-16 15:46                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-03-16 10:09     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-16 10:09       ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange

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