qemu-devel.nongnu.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: Christopher Pereira <kripper@imatronix.cl>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Can qemu reopen image files?
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 09:07:43 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161219010743.GA2719@lemon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53e52412-cd32-cb9e-2261-882a7b5b84ea@imatronix.cl>

On Sun, 12/18 20:52, Christopher Pereira wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are doing a "qemu-img convert" operation (qcow2, with compression) to
> shorten the backing-chain (in the middle of the backing-chain).
> In order to force qemu to reopen files, we do a save and restore operation.
> Is there a faster way to reopen image files using virsh or qemu?

No, don't use qemu-img when the image is in use by QEMU. You want to use
"block-commit" command provided by QMP.

Fam

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-19  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-18 23:52 [Qemu-devel] Can qemu reopen image files? Christopher Pereira
2016-12-19  1:07 ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2016-12-19 13:55   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2016-12-19 15:03     ` Christopher Pereira
2016-12-19 15:48       ` Eric Blake
2016-12-19 16:24         ` Christopher Pereira
2016-12-28 18:51           ` Christopher Pereira
2016-12-29 13:42             ` Eric Blake
2016-12-29 13:52               ` Eric Blake
2016-12-29 13:55                 ` Eric Blake
2016-12-29 13:39           ` Eric Blake

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20161219010743.GA2719@lemon \
    --to=famz@redhat.com \
    --cc=kripper@imatronix.cl \
    --cc=qemu-devel@nongnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).