From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: "libvir-list@redhat.com" <libvir-list@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] live snapshot wiki updated
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:26:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E269149.4090904@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110719164755.GF12026@redhat.com>
On 07/19/11 18:47, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 04:30:19PM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> On 07/19/11 16:24, Eric Blake wrote:
>>> Besides, I feel that having a well-documented file format, so that
>>> independent applications can both parse the same file with the same
>>> semantics by obeying the file format specification, is a good design goal.
>>
>> We all know that documentation is rarely uptodate, new features may not
>> get added and libvirt will never be able to keep up. The driver for a
>> file format belongs in QEMU and nowhere else.
>
> This would be possible if QEMU to provide a libblockformat.so library
> which allowed apps to extract metadata from file formats using a stable
> API.
There is no reason for libvirt or any external process to mess about
with the internals of image files. You have the same problem if the
image file is encrypted.
Jes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-20 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-15 14:58 [Qemu-devel] live snapshot wiki updated Jes Sorensen
2011-07-18 14:08 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-07-19 7:24 ` Jes Sorensen
2011-07-19 13:23 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-07-19 13:27 ` Jes Sorensen
2011-07-19 13:58 ` Eric Blake
2011-07-19 14:09 ` Jes Sorensen
2011-07-19 14:24 ` Eric Blake
2011-07-19 14:30 ` Jes Sorensen
2011-07-19 15:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-07-19 16:46 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-07-20 7:30 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-07-20 8:23 ` Jes Sorensen
2011-07-20 9:36 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-07-20 10:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2011-07-20 10:28 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-07-20 11:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Stefan Hajnoczi
[not found] ` <4E27E610.7090502@redhat.com>
[not found] ` <4E282DE6.1020603@redhat.com>
[not found] ` <4E283554.4080903@redhat.com>
2011-07-21 14:51 ` Eric Blake
[not found] ` <4E27E5A2.2030208@redhat.com>
[not found] ` <4E28317D.9020502@redhat.com>
2011-07-21 15:01 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-07-21 19:42 ` Blue Swirl
2011-07-22 5:06 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-07-22 15:49 ` Blue Swirl
2011-07-22 7:22 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-07-22 9:11 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-07-22 16:05 ` Blue Swirl
2011-07-20 9:50 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-07-20 10:18 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-07-19 16:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-20 8:25 ` Jes Sorensen
2011-07-20 10:01 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-07-20 13:25 ` Jes Sorensen
2011-07-20 13:46 ` Eric Blake
2011-07-20 17:27 ` Blue Swirl
2011-07-20 17:47 ` Eric Blake
2011-07-20 19:51 ` Blue Swirl
[not found] ` <4E27DE5D.5050502@redhat.com>
2011-07-21 19:34 ` Blue Swirl
2011-07-20 13:51 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-07-20 17:20 ` Blue Swirl
2011-07-20 17:41 ` Eric Blake
2011-07-20 18:00 ` Blue Swirl
2011-07-20 18:17 ` Eric Blake
2011-07-20 20:01 ` Blue Swirl
2011-07-20 20:10 ` Eric Blake
[not found] ` <4E27E280.2060306@redhat.com>
2011-07-21 19:01 ` Blue Swirl
2011-07-22 7:36 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-22 8:11 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-07-22 16:09 ` Blue Swirl
2011-07-20 13:50 ` Cleber Rosa
2011-07-20 14:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-20 18:34 ` Cleber Rosa
2011-07-19 16:47 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-07-20 8:26 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2011-07-20 9:38 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-07-20 14:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-21 18:56 ` Michael Roth
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