From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, aliguori@us.ibm.com,
Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>,
quintela@redhat.com, stefanha@gmail.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
lcapitulino@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, dietmar@proxmox.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 00/10] snapshot: take block snapshots in unified way
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:34:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50EDF08E.7000402@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1357543689-11415-1-git-send-email-xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On 01/07/2013 12:27 AM, Wenchao Xia wrote:
> These patch added a seperated layer to take internal or external snapshots
> in a unified way, the granularity is block device, so other functions can
> just combine the request and submit, such as group snapshot, savevm.
>
> Total goal are:
> Live back up vm in external or internal image, which need three functions:
> 1 live snapshot block device internal/external.
> 2 live save vmstate internal/external.
> 3 combination of the function unit.
>
> This serial provide part one.
>
The design on this series needs to be coordinated with Pavel's
attempts[1] to convert the existing HMP snapshot commands into QMP. I
don't want to spend too much time reviewing two different divergent
designs that both have the same goal of finally managing snapshots under
QMP.
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-01/msg01326.html
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-09 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-07 7:27 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 00/10] snapshot: take block snapshots in unified way Wenchao Xia
2013-01-07 7:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 01/10] block: export function bdrv_find_snapshot() Wenchao Xia
2013-01-07 7:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 02/10] block: add function deappend() Wenchao Xia
2013-01-07 7:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 03/10] error: add function error_set_check() Wenchao Xia
2013-01-07 7:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 04/10] oslib-win32: add lock for time functions Wenchao Xia
2013-01-07 17:12 ` Stefan Weil
2013-01-08 2:27 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-01-07 7:28 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-01-07 7:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 05/10] snapshot: design of internal common API to take snapshots Wenchao Xia
2013-01-07 7:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 06/10] snapshot: implemention " Wenchao Xia
2013-01-07 7:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 07/10] snapshot: qmp use new internal API for external snapshot transaction Wenchao Xia
2013-01-09 12:44 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-01-10 3:21 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-01-10 12:41 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-01-11 6:22 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-01-11 9:12 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-01-14 2:56 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-01-14 10:06 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-01-15 7:03 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-03-12 8:30 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-03-12 15:43 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-03-13 1:36 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-03-13 8:42 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-03-13 10:18 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-03-14 5:08 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-03-14 8:22 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-03-18 10:00 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-01-07 7:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 08/10] snapshot: qmp add internal snapshot transaction interface Wenchao Xia
2013-01-07 7:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 09/10] snapshot: qmp add blockdev-snapshot-internal-sync interface Wenchao Xia
2013-01-07 7:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 10/10] snapshot: hmp add internal snapshot support for block device Wenchao Xia
2013-01-09 22:34 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2013-01-10 6:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 00/10] snapshot: take block snapshots in unified way Wenchao Xia
2013-01-11 13:56 ` Luiz Capitulino
2013-01-14 2:09 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-01-14 10:08 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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