From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Orit Wasserman <owasserm@redhat.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
dlaor@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp,
Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>,
hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] This patch adds a new block driver : iSCSI
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:58:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E71F67B.3@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1316090109.29180.43.camel@dhcp-1-120.tlv.redhat.com>
On 09/15/2011 02:34 PM, Orit Wasserman wrote:
>> > Then you need an iSCSI*target* that understands qcow2, like qemu-nbd
>> > but for iSCSI... that's exactly the thing you were worried about
>> > implementing.
>
> Not really , this is just part of the target configuration.
> For each file in the chain we create a lun in the target that is backed
> by the file and we number the luns in chronological order (base is lun
> 1) . you can look at a tgtd configuration here
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/LiveBlockMigration#Example_single_base_master_image.
That's surely a weird way to use iSCSI. :)
It's clever, but I would call that shared storage, since you need to
share the details of the snapshot chain between the source and
destination, down to the file names. We need a more precise nomenclature.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-15 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-10 4:23 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add iSCSI support for QEMU Ronnie Sahlberg
2011-09-10 4:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] This patch adds a new block driver : iSCSI Ronnie Sahlberg
2011-09-12 9:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-09-14 14:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-14 15:50 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-09-16 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-17 7:11 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-09-14 22:51 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-09-15 8:02 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-09-15 9:03 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-09-14 23:08 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-09-15 6:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 8:48 ` Dor Laor
2011-09-15 9:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 11:27 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-09-15 11:42 ` Dor Laor
2011-09-15 11:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-15 12:01 ` Dor Laor
2011-09-15 12:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 11:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 12:34 ` Orit Wasserman
2011-09-15 12:58 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2011-09-15 16:59 ` Orit Wasserman
2011-09-15 9:44 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-09-15 9:10 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-09-15 9:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-21 9:48 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-09-23 9:15 ` Mark Wu
2011-09-23 10:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-12 8:56 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add iSCSI support for QEMU Kevin Wolf
2011-09-14 12:24 ` Orit Wasserman
2011-09-14 14:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-14 14:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-14 15:35 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-09-14 15:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-14 15:51 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-09-14 16:36 ` Orit Wasserman
2011-09-15 6:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 9:52 ` Orit Wasserman
2011-09-15 9:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-15 10:10 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-09-17 19:08 ` Laurent Vivier
2011-09-18 7:43 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-14 16:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-14 22:46 ` ronnie sahlberg
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-09-21 9:37 Ronnie Sahlberg
2011-09-21 9:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] This patch adds a new block driver : iSCSI Ronnie Sahlberg
2011-09-21 9:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-21 9:52 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-09-27 20:08 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-09-28 5:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-29 6:54 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-10-09 20:46 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-10-13 9:46 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-10-13 9:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-13 9:54 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-10-13 10:01 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-10-13 10:55 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-10-13 10:52 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-10-24 13:33 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-10-25 8:04 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-10-25 8:17 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-10-25 8:23 ` ronnie sahlberg
2011-10-25 8:46 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-10-28 10:46 ` Zhi Yong Wu
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