From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53235) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XP56F-0002RT-Vm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2014 03:35:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XP566-0007Rs-Od for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2014 03:35:27 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:24141) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XP566-0007Rl-Hd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2014 03:35:18 -0400 Message-ID: <5406C4A0.1030903@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 09:34:56 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20140829172218.GD16755@irqsave.net> <20140902092510.GC29067@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> <54065EE7.4080601@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <54065EE7.4080601@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] tcmu-runner and QEMU List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Andy Grover , Stefan Hajnoczi , =?windows-1252?Q?Beno=EEt_Canet?= Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Il 03/09/2014 02:20, Andy Grover ha scritto: >> The qemu-lio tool would live in the QEMU codebase and reuse all the >> infrastructure. For example, it could include a QMP monitor just like >> the one you are adding to qemu-nbd. > > Benoit and I talked a little about QMP on another part of the thread... > I said I didn't think we needed a QMP monitor in qemu-lio-tcmu, but let > me spin up on qemu a little more and I'll be able to speak more > intelligently. You do need it. If you think of it from the "traditional NAS" viewpoint, it's how you do things like snapshots, mirroring, RAID recovery, and all that. Paolo