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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Wolfgang Richter <wolf@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Adding Disk-Level Introspection to QEMU
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:22:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5176C33C.6000006@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACO=3k4VE80D0_AJW-MtPmkJpjLaCi3c8CHV+PJ1kJg_J=hsVQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On 04/23/2013 11:12 AM, Wolfgang Richter wrote:
> I'm interested in adding introspection of disk writes to QEMU for various
> applications and research potential.
> 
> What I mean by introspection of disk writes is that, when enabled, each
> write
> passing through QEMU to backing storage would also be copied to an
> introspection channel for further analysis.

Sounds like you would be benefited by the block-backup series, with an
NBD server as the point where you inject your introspection.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-04/msg04629.html

The existing drive-mirror command can also target an NBD destination,
with similar effects.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-23 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-23 17:12 [Qemu-devel] Adding Disk-Level Introspection to QEMU Wolfgang Richter
2013-04-23 17:22 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2013-04-23 17:40   ` Wolfgang Richter
2013-04-24  8:37     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-04-24  9:24       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-24 16:14         ` Wolfgang Richter
2013-04-24 15:59       ` Wolfgang Richter
2013-04-24 19:20       ` Wolfgang Richter
2013-04-23 18:19   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-04-23 18:21 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-04-23 18:31   ` Wolfgang Richter
2013-04-23 19:11     ` Wolfgang Richter
2013-04-24  8:39       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-04-24 16:05         ` Wolfgang Richter
2013-04-24  9:26     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-24 16:14       ` Wolfgang Richter
     [not found]       ` <CACO=3k4eoT9KwPBgM2eN089=PzzOyBECWgD6MOHz=bzy5EcxAQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <51780539.1010303@redhat.com>
2013-04-24 16:43           ` Wolfgang Richter

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