From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Puneet Bakshi <bakshi.puneet@gmail.com>,
"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: libvir-list@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] Regarding guest-file-write
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:34:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A99A72.7040206@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALBPQ30wOVOGEB2+kJexrDdwH7+9j9KPs_jnEN-YHhpxnntEZQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 06/24/2014 07:10 AM, Puneet Bakshi wrote:
[please don't top-post on technical lists]
> 1. In that case, I hope it allow sending binary data (non-ASCII) also.
Yes, the reason guest-file-write takes base64 encoded data is PRECISELY
so that it can cope with binary data while still using only ascii
representation over the wire.
>
> 2. If I encode my data in base-64 form, is there a limit on size of the
> data I can pass (or I can pass arbitrarily large amount of data).
At this point, it may be faster for you to read the qemu source code.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-24 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-24 12:50 [Qemu-devel] Regarding guest-file-write Puneet Bakshi
2014-06-24 12:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Daniel P. Berrange
2014-06-24 13:10 ` Puneet Bakshi
2014-06-24 15:34 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2014-06-24 15:32 ` [Qemu-devel] " Eric Blake
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