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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:45:37 +0000
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call agenda for Mar 16
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>

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
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