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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: document block-stream in qmp-commands.hx
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 11:43:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1429094622-26218-1-git-send-email-stefanha@redhat.com> (raw)

The 'block-stream' QMP command is documented in block-core.json but not
qmp-commands.hx.  Add a summary of the command to qmp-commands.hx
(similar to the documentation for 'block-commit').

Reported-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
---
 qmp-commands.hx | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)

diff --git a/qmp-commands.hx b/qmp-commands.hx
index 3a42ad0..7a745ed 100644
--- a/qmp-commands.hx
+++ b/qmp-commands.hx
@@ -1008,6 +1008,43 @@ EQMP
         .mhandler.cmd_new = qmp_marshal_input_block_stream,
     },
 
+SQMP
+block-stream
+------------
+
+Copy data from a backing file into a block device.
+
+Arguments:
+
+- "device": The device's ID, must be unique (json-string)
+- "base": The file name of the backing image above which copying starts
+          (json-string, optional)
+- "backing-file": The backing file string to write into the active layer. This
+                  filename is not validated.
+
+                  If a pathname string is such that it cannot be resolved by
+                  QEMU, that means that subsequent QMP or HMP commands must use
+                  node-names for the image in question, as filename lookup
+                  methods will fail.
+
+                  If not specified, QEMU will automatically determine the
+                  backing file string to use, or error out if there is no
+                  obvious choice.  Care should be taken when specifying the
+                  string, to specify a valid filename or protocol.
+                  (json-string, optional) (Since 2.1)
+- "speed":  the maximum speed, in bytes per second (json-int, optional)
+- "on-error": the action to take on an error (default 'report').  'stop' and
+              'enospc' can only be used if the block device supports io-status.
+              (json-string, optional) (Since 2.1)
+
+Example:
+
+-> { "execute": "block-stream", "arguments": { "device": "virtio0",
+                                               "base": "/tmp/master.qcow2" } }
+<- { "return": {} }
+
+EQMP
+
     {
         .name       = "block-commit",
         .args_type  = "device:B,base:s?,top:s?,backing-file:s?,speed:o?",
-- 
2.1.0

             reply	other threads:[~2015-04-15 10:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-15 10:43 Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2015-04-15 13:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: document block-stream in qmp-commands.hx Eric Blake
2015-04-15 13:08 ` Max Reitz
2015-04-16 10:19   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-04-27 12:45     ` Markus Armbruster
2015-04-21 13:22 ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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