Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/11] Add new LUKS block driver (for 2.6)

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 21.03.2016 um 15:11 hat Daniel P. Berrange geschrieben:
> This series is just the block layer parts needed to add
> a LUKS driver to QEMU. It was previously posted as part
> of the larger series
> 
>   v1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-11/msg04748.html
>   v2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2016-01/msg00534.html
>   v3: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg03176.html
>   v4: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg06552.html
>   v5: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-03/msg04397.html
> 
> The crypto subsystem pieces that this series depends on have now
> all been merged.
> 
> In this posting I am only proposing merge of the generic LUKS
> driver. This can be added as a layer above any of the existing
> drivers for accessing LUKS formatted volumes.
> 
> When creating new volumes, however, only the file backend can
> be used, since the block driver API doesn't allow for arbitrary
> stacking of protocols when creating images.
> 
> The integration with the qcow2 driver to replace the existing
> built-in AES-CBC code is dropped from this series, postponed
> until the 2.7 development cycle.
> 
> There is a QEMU I/O test 149 that exercises the LUKS driver
> and checks for compatibility with the dm-crypt/cryptsetup
> impl.

Thanks, applied to the block branch.

Kevin