From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC configurable block formats
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:25:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC51E47.8030709@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ab0azwlz.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org>
Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> writes:
>
>
>> The list would be used to exclude block formats and could be
>> extended to support read-only formats vs. read-write formats. For
>> instance, --enable-block-formats='qcow2 raw'. It avoids polluting the
>> block interface with knowledge of the distinction between a "utility"
>> program and qemu proper.
>>
>
> I agree it's better to keep it out of the BlockDriver interface.
>
> Here's a patch for illustration. It's only lightly tested, lacks the
> configure part, and I still need to check all users of bdrv_open2() are
> happy. Are we on the same page?
>
Looks reasonable to me.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-01 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-30 19:26 [Qemu-devel] RFC configurable block formats Markus Armbruster
2009-09-30 23:27 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-01 20:29 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-10-01 21:25 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-10-02 12:52 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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