Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V9 0/2] Implement sync modes for drive-backup.

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 05:36:28PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> On Mon, 07/29 10:02, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:52:44AM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > > Am 26.07.2013 um 20:39 hat Ian Main geschrieben:
> > > > This patch adds sync modes on top of the work that Stefan Hajnoczi has done.
> > > > 
> > > > These patches apply on kevin/block.
> > > > 
> > > > Hopefully all is in order as this is my first QEMU patch.  Many thanks to
> > > > Stephan and Fam Zheng for their help.
> > > 
> > > Thanks, applied to the block branch (and meanwhile it's in master, too)
> > 
> > I'd like to test this (the stuff in development, not the small bits
> > that are making their way into qemu), but I don't have a clear idea of
> > what are the latest patches and how they relate to each other, since
> > there are at least 2 people working on this, producing separate
> > patches asynchronously.
> > 
> > What would be really helpful would be for one of the developers to put
> > up a qemu git tree that contains the latest stuff that needs to be
> > tested.  github.com is an easy route to doing this.
> > 
> > Rich.
> > 
> 
> Rich,
> 
> If you mean image fleecing, you could possibly have a look at this (the
> latest)
> 
>     http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-07/msg05280.html
>     [RFC PATCH 0/4] hmp/qmp: add snapshot option to nbd export
> 
> The tree is here:
> 
>     git://github.com/famz/qemu.git nbd-snapshot
> 
> BTW, the second latest one is:
> 
>     https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-07/msg02719.html
>     [PATCH v2 00/11] Point-in-time snapshot exporting over NBD
> 
> The tree is:
> 
>     git://github.com/famz/qemu.git image-fleecing
> 
> Neither are set final for the interface PoV, the second should be closer
> though.

Are there patches from Ian Main required on top of these to
finish off, or are those sufficient to test against?

Rich.

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