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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] Regarding guest-file-write
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To: Puneet Bakshi <bakshi.puneet@gmail.com>, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
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On 06/24/2014 07:10 AM, Puneet Bakshi wrote:

[please don't top-post on technical lists]

> 1. In that case, I hope it allow sending binary data (non-ASCII) also.

Yes, the reason guest-file-write takes base64 encoded data is PRECISELY
so that it can cope with binary data while still using only ascii
representation over the wire.

>=20
> 2. If I encode my data in base-64 form, is there a limit on size of the=

> data I can pass (or I can pass arbitrarily large amount of data).

At this point, it may be faster for you to read the qemu source code.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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