From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>,
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/11] convert savevm to use qapi and introduce qmp command
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:40:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130410084025.5db97979@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <516559EB.8020005@redhat.com>
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 06:24:11 -0600
Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
> > - If you want to overwrite an existing snapshot, you could specify
> > the 'id' or the 'name' argument or both of them and also you will
> > have to use the 'force' argument
>
> But the argument made in this thread is that QMP should _not_ have a
> force argument. It should be a flat-out error in QMP to try to create a
> snapshot with a conflicting name or tag; preferably with a distinct
> error type. Higher-level apps (HMP savevm -f) would try to create; if
> -f is not specified, the error is good enough; if -f is specified and
> that particular error is returned, then HMP calls delete and then
> re-tries the create. No 'force' argument needed at the QMP layer.
To avoid adding a new error class, the HMP command could query for the
snapshot name and delete it if it exists before creating the snapshot.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-10 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-29 14:12 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/11] convert savevm to use qapi and introduce qmp command Pavel Hrdina
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 01/11] block: add error parameter to bdrv_snapshot_create() and related functions Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 13:13 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-04-09 13:43 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-04-09 16:21 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 02/11] block: add error parameter to del_existing_snapshots() Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 13:27 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-04-09 14:14 ` Luiz Capitulino
2013-04-10 9:57 ` Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-10 11:33 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-04-10 12:06 ` Eric Blake
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 03/11] savevm: add error parameter to qemu_savevm_state_begin() Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 13:34 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-04-09 13:37 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-04-09 13:47 ` Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 13:49 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 04/11] savevm: add error parameter to qemu_savevm_state_iterate() Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 13:41 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 05/11] savevm: add error parameter to qemu_savevm_state_complete() Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 13:56 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 06/11] savevm: add error parameter to qemu_savevm_state() Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 14:00 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 07/11] qapi: Convert savevm Pavel Hrdina
2013-03-29 16:12 ` Eric Blake
2013-03-29 16:21 ` Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 16:04 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-04-09 16:12 ` Eric Blake
2013-04-09 17:23 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-04-09 17:46 ` Eric Blake
2013-04-10 8:01 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 08/11] qemu-img: introduce qemu_img_handle_error Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 16:10 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 09/11] block: update return value from bdrv_snapshot_create Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 16:29 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 10/11] savevm: update return value from qemu_savevm_state Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 16:32 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 11/11] savevm: add force parameter to HMP command and return snapshot info Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 16:45 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-04-10 8:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/11] convert savevm to use qapi and introduce qmp command Markus Armbruster
2013-04-10 10:53 ` Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-10 12:24 ` Eric Blake
2013-04-10 12:40 ` Luiz Capitulino [this message]
2013-04-10 12:49 ` Eric Blake
2013-04-10 13:22 ` Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-10 13:32 ` Luiz Capitulino
2013-04-10 13:50 ` Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-10 14:05 ` Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-10 17:15 ` Eric Blake
2013-04-10 17:33 ` Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-17 2:48 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-04-11 9:20 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-04-15 12:10 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-04-15 13:16 ` Eric Blake
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