Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: add 'backing' option to drive_add

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 06/18 10:40, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 18/06/2013 08:37, Markus Armbruster ha scritto:
> > >        If not, can we try to detect such case  on opening
> > Gee, what a nice swamp you found there!
> 
> It is a huge swamp indeed.
> 
> Since we stop all block jobs on media change already, what about just
> adding a command "block-job-attach" or something like that which exposes
> the target of the job as a blockdev (presumably so that you can then add
> it to the NBD server)?
> 

In fact block job target BDS is already created when job started, so
it's rather about finding a way to "query" the target BDS name, or get
it as command return value, than attach a blockdev. Once we have the
device name, we can add it to the NBD server.

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Fam