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From: Liu Yuan <namei.unix@gmail.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com, sheepdog@lists.wpkg.org,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	MORITA Kazutaka <morita.kazutaka@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [sheepdog] [PATCH 0/3] sheepdog: support online snapshot from qemu-img
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:01:23 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51793733.8050900@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5179333D.1040501@redhat.com>

On 04/25/2013 09:44 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Is that even safe?  We specifically recommend that users NOT use
> qemu-img on any image that is in-use by a qemu process, and instead only
> use qemu monitor commands; since qemu-img may see inconsistent state,
> and worse, any writes that qemu-img do may cause qemu to see
> inconsistent state and cause corruption to the running guest.

Then why not disable ( qemu-im snapshoting live VM) this behavior
completely?

Thanks,
Yuan

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-25 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-25 10:37 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] sheepdog: support online snapshot from qemu-img MORITA Kazutaka
2013-04-25 10:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] sheepdog: cleanup find_vdi_name MORITA Kazutaka
2013-04-25 10:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] sheepdog: add SD_RES_READONLY result code MORITA Kazutaka
2013-04-25 10:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] sheepdog: resend write requests when SD_RES_READONLY is received MORITA Kazutaka
2013-04-25 13:08   ` [Qemu-devel] [sheepdog] " Liu Yuan
2013-04-25 16:16     ` MORITA Kazutaka
2013-04-25 13:56   ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-04-25 13:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] sheepdog: support online snapshot from qemu-img Eric Blake
2013-04-25 14:01   ` Liu Yuan [this message]
2013-04-25 14:06   ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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