Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] block/rbd: Add blockdev-add support

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 02:30:41AM -0500, Jeff Cody wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
> ---
>  qapi/block-core.json | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json
> index 5f82d35..08a1419 100644
> --- a/qapi/block-core.json
> +++ b/qapi/block-core.json
> @@ -2111,6 +2111,7 @@
>  # @replication: Since 2.8
>  # @ssh: Since 2.8
>  # @iscsi: Since 2.9
> +# @rbd: Since 2.9
>  #
>  # Since: 2.0
>  ##
> @@ -2120,7 +2121,7 @@
>              'host_device', 'http', 'https', 'iscsi', 'luks', 'nbd', 'nfs',
>              'null-aio', 'null-co', 'parallels', 'qcow', 'qcow2', 'qed',
>              'quorum', 'raw', 'replication', 'ssh', 'vdi', 'vhdx', 'vmdk',
> -            'vpc', 'vvfat' ] }
> +            'vpc', 'vvfat', 'rbd' ] }
>  
>  ##
>  # @BlockdevOptionsFile:
> @@ -2376,7 +2377,6 @@
>              'path': 'str',
>              '*user': 'str' } }
>  
> -
>  ##
>  # @BlkdebugEvent:
>  #
> @@ -2666,6 +2666,47 @@
>              '*timeout': 'int' } }
>  
>  ##
> +# @BlockdevOptionsRbd:
> +#
> +# @pool:               Ceph pool name
> +#
> +# @image:              Image name in the Ceph pool
> +#
> +# @conf:               # optional path to Ceph configuration file.  Values
> +#                      in the configuration file will be overridden by
> +#                      options specified via QAPI.
> +#
> +# @snapshot:           #optional Ceph snapshot name
> +#
> +# @rbd-id:             #optional Ceph id name

BTW, I think I'd suggest 'user' or 'username' for this, since that is the more
common terminology we seem to use for other block drivers

> +#
> +# @password-secret:    #optional The ID of a QCryptoSecret object providing
> +#                       the password for the login.
> +#
> +# @keyvalue-pairs:     #optional  string containing key/value pairs for
> +#                      additional Ceph configuration, not including "id" or "conf"
> +#                      options. This can be used to specify any of the options
> +#                      that Ceph supports.  The format is of the form:
> +#                           key1=value1:key2=value2:[...]
> +#
> +#                      Special characters such as ":" and "=" can be escaped
> +#                      with a '\' character, which means the QAPI needs an
> +#                      extra '\' character to pass the needed escape character.
> +#                      For example:
> +#                            "keyvalue-pairs": "mon_host=127.0.0.1\\:6321"

Regards,
Daniel
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