Re: Livebackup feature for qemu/qemu-kvm

[Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>]

On 05/03/11 07:58, Jagane Sundar wrote:
> On 5/2/2011 7:36 AM, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> Reading your page, the first thing I stumble upon under 'Use Cases' is
>> the reference to EBS storage. What is that?
> EBS stands for Elastic Block Storage - Amazon EC2's shared storage 
> solution. This is the storage that comes with guarantees, since it is
> replicated across machines.

I see, it would be good if you made that more explicit in the document
for those who aren't as experienced with EC2, like me.

>> Under details, I think it is not a good idea to rely on QEMU
>> looking for any files with specific file name suffixes. It really
>> should be specified on the command line by the user or admin tool.
> That's a good idea. Perhaps another attribute in the drive description
> list,
> just like type=virtio, maybe backup=livebackup.

I think that is the right way to go.

>> In general it looks interesting, you could consider submitting a
>> presentation about Livebackup to the KVM Forum 2011.
> 
> Glad to know that you think it is interesting. Also, thanks for the 
> pointer to KVM Forum 2011, Jes. It looks like I have a few more weeks
> to get an abstract in for KVM forum 2011. I will do so.

Excellent, please go ahead and submit it!

Cheers,
Jes