[Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] qcow2.py: dump metadata

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

This series includes several improvements to qcow2.py, mostly
the ability to dump the L1 and L2 tables for a full backing
chain.

Doing this completely would require support for all image formats,
not just qcow2.  To cover the common cases, I included support
for raw backing files.

The right thing to do perhaps would be to add the read-metadata
patches from the in-place QED conversion summer of code project,
but I wanted to throw out these anyway if anyone has comments.

Paolo

Paolo Bonzini (5):
  qcow2.py: rename class to Qcow
  qcow2.py: add ImageFile superclass
  qcow2.py: add load_image() method
  qcow2.py: add method to load backing image
  qcow2.py: add dump-map command

 tests/qemu-iotests/qcow2.py | 258 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 217 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

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