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From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Image Streaming API
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To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:16:44 -0500
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> On 08/23/2011 07:58 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > These patches put in place the image streaming QMP/HMP commands and
> > documentation.  Image streaming itself is not implemented by this patch series
> > but the HMP/QMP commands that libvirt uses are implemented to return
> > NotSupported.
> >
> > The Image Streaming API can be used to copy the contents of a backing file into
> > the image file while the guest is running.  The API is described on the wiki:
> > http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/LiveBlockMigration/ImageStreamingAPI
> >
> > The point of this series is to commit QEMU to the API that we have worked out
> > with libvirt.  The QED Image Streaming series that I posted earlier provides an
> > implementation for the QED image format only.  I am currently working on a
> > generic block layer implementation so that any format with backing file support
> > can do image streaming.
> >
> > For reference, the QED-specific implementation lives here:
> > http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/stefanha.git/shortlog/refs/heads/stream-command
> 
> Luiz, can you bring this in through your tree with an Ack from Kevin.

Sure.