Re: [PATCH v5 4/5] qemu-img: Add convert --bitmaps option

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

On 5/21/20 10:11 AM, Nir Soffer wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 1:01 AM Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Make it easier to copy all the persistent bitmaps of (the top layer
>> of) a source image along with its guest-visible contents, by adding a
>> boolean flag for use with qemu-img convert.  This is basically
>> shorthand, as the same effect could be accomplished with a series of
>> 'qemu-img bitmap --add' and 'qemu-img bitmap --merge -b source'
>> commands, or by QMP commands.
>>
>> Note that this command will fail in the same scenarios where 'qemu-img
>> measure --bitmaps' fails, when either the source or the destanation

destination

>> lacks persistent bitmap support altogether.
> 
> If we remove --bitmaps option from qemu-img measure, we need to remove
> this note.

Or rather, adjust it to state that "this command will fail in the 
scenarios where 'qemu-img measure' omits a 'bitmaps size:' output line.

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