From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@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>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] live snapshot wiki updated
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:36:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E292893.8010005@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E26DD5B.9010703@redhat.com>
On 07/20/2011 04:51 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> >
> > The problem is that QEMU will find backing file file names inside the
> > images which it will be unable to open. How do you suggest we get around
> > that?
>
> This is the part with allowing libvirt to override the backing file. Of
> course, this is not something that we can add with five lines of code,
> it requires -blockdev.
It can be done without blockdev. Have a dictionary that translates
filenames, and populate it from the command line (for a bonus, translate
a filename to a file descriptor inherited from the caller or passed via
the monitor).
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-22 7:37 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 [this message]
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
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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