From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>,
"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"Anthony Liguori" <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Semantics of DeviceState::realized and BlockDriverState
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:55:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD88DD9.8030501@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3vcivz82s.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org>
Il 13/06/2012 14:53, Markus Armbruster ha scritto:
>> > This behavior is necessary to allow overriding backing files.
> Could you explain why we need to override backing files between open and
> attach?
Open tells us that you need a backing file.
After attach, state should be finalized.
Hence, between open and attach is the only time when you can override
backing files.
> Can you give another example of something we need to be able to do
> between open and attach?
I can't think of anything.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-13 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-11 22:05 [Qemu-devel] Semantics of DeviceState::realized and BlockDriverState Anthony Liguori
2012-06-12 0:29 ` Andreas Färber
2012-06-12 1:26 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-12 6:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-06-12 8:07 ` Kevin Wolf
2012-06-12 8:02 ` Kevin Wolf
2012-06-13 12:53 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-06-13 12:55 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-06-13 13:18 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-13 15:44 ` Kevin Wolf
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