From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: KVM call agenda for Mar 16 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:45:37 +0000 Message-ID: <20100316104537.GH23617@redhat.com> References: <20100316070155.GK3732@x200.localdomain> <20100316092944.GB23617@redhat.com> <4B9F52D4.2030208@redhat.com> <20100316103146.GF23617@redhat.com> <4B9F5F8A.4080105@redhat.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Juan Quintela , Chris Wright , kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:20166 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933529Ab0CPKpl (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:45:41 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B9F5F8A.4080105@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:38:02PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 03/16/2010 12:31 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >>Polling loops are an indication that something is wrong. > >> > >Except when people suggest they are the right answer, qcow high > >watermark ;-P > > > > I liked Anthony's suggestion of an lvm2 block format driver. No polling. Doesn't that require giving QEMU privileges to perform LVM operations which implies QEMU having CAP_SYS_ADMIN ? Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|