From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40999) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8YIU-0005oT-EK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:47:36 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8YIO-0001vy-GE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:47:30 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:27853) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8YIO-0001vu-8H for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:47:24 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:01:55 +0100 From: Kevin Wolf Message-ID: <20140129160155.GL2726@dhcp-200-207.str.redhat.com> References: <20140129092452.GB2726@dhcp-200-207.str.redhat.com> <20140129143516.GK2726@dhcp-200-207.str.redhat.com> <20140129145226.GB11249@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140129145226.GB11249@localhost.localdomain> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] committing qcow2 to raw backing file List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jeff Cody Cc: Giri Basava , Murali Balcha , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" Am 29.01.2014 um 15:52 hat Jeff Cody geschrieben: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 03:35:16PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote: > > Am 29.01.2014 um 14:50 hat Murali Balcha geschrieben: > > The problem is that qemu-img would have to increase the image size of > > the backing file first before it can commit all the data to it. I > > believe there was a patch by Jeff (CC'ed) that would do exactly this. > > > > Kevin > > Thanks Kevin, > > Yes, the patch is in the qemu-kvm git master as of Jan 24 2014 (so it > is pretty new); here is the commit id info: Heh, I actually looked at the function in master and didn't see it. I guess it tells you how well I can concentrate with my cold. :-) Thanks for giving the details, Jeff. Kevin