From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34330) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S3MNd-0005ri-An for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:54:18 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S3MNb-00067I-Iy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:54:16 -0500 Received: from mail-ee0-f45.google.com ([74.125.83.45]:39233) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S3MNb-00066I-98 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:54:15 -0500 Received: by eeit10 with SMTP id t10so615756eei.4 for ; Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:54:13 -0800 (PST) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <4F506E92.9080902@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 07:54:10 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4F4E9E31.50903@storagecraft.com> <4F4F8FCD.7010106@redhat.com> <4F4FD1C9.8050006@storagecraft.com> <4F4FD7C7.7030001@mail.berlios.de> <4F4FD9A6.9060308@mail.berlios.de> <4F4FE4AA.20902@codemonkey.ws> <4F4FE6C6.1070302@storagecraft.com> In-Reply-To: <4F4FE6C6.1070302@storagecraft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Add support for new image type List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Kai Meyer Cc: Stefan Weil , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Anthony Liguori , Nate Bushman Il 01/03/2012 22:14, Kai Meyer ha scritto: > If we can't use qemu in general use-cases (since we can't push support > for our images up stream), we could still really benefit from a targeted > use-cases (like a Rescue Environment.) It does not matter whether it is upstream or not. When you distribute your modified QEMU binary, anyone who receives it has the right to ask you for the complete corresponding source code. I also suggest that you write a wrapper around your library that exports the contents as iSCSI or NBD. Paolo