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To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, "libvir-list@redhat.com" <libvir-list@redhat.com>, Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

On 07/19/2011 11:47 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 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.

I'm in 100% agreement that we need to provide the equivalent of a 
libblockformat.so down the road.

But the block layer needs some work before we can support a stable 
interface.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Daniel