From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44610) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFjwP-0006UO-DK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:56:34 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFjwO-0006iG-EI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:56:33 -0500 References: <20170628120530.31251-1-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> From: Eric Blake Message-ID: Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 10:56:13 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2WgIL08eodS5fEHFB4r4ECHuGRd9c6w5i" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v22 00/30] qcow2: persistent dirty bitmaps List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy , qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, mreitz@redhat.com, armbru@redhat.com, jsnow@redhat.com, famz@redhat.com, den@openvz.org, stefanha@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --2WgIL08eodS5fEHFB4r4ECHuGRd9c6w5i From: Eric Blake To: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy , qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, mreitz@redhat.com, armbru@redhat.com, jsnow@redhat.com, famz@redhat.com, den@openvz.org, stefanha@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v22 00/30] qcow2: persistent dirty bitmaps References: <20170628120530.31251-1-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11/17/2017 10:17 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: >> Nothing in this series touched qemu-img.=C2=A0 At the very minimum, it= would >> be nice if 'qemu-img info' were to display a summary of all bitmaps in= >> the qcow2 file; the QMP type ImageInfoSpecificQCow2 should be updated = to >> mention this information, and qemu-img updated to output it.=C2=A0 Bei= ng able >> to create and remove persistent bitmaps from an at-rest qcow2 file >> without having to fire up qemu to issue QMP commands to do so would al= so >> be nice. >> >> It's a bit late for getting this request into 2.12, but had it been Make that "too late for 2.11" >> available, it would make my work at testing that 'qemu-img commit' >> doesn't corrupt persistent bitmaps. >> >=20 > You are right, this is needed, but I can't promise something for the > nearest future.. And as we both agree it is work for 2.12 or later, it is not needed right away; so we have a couple of months. --=20 Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org --2WgIL08eodS5fEHFB4r4ECHuGRd9c6w5i Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEccLMIrHEYCkn0vOqp6FrSiUnQ2oFAloPFK0ACgkQp6FrSiUn Q2oPYAf/YMUS41RdkEF7MP0BMMANt+422Avrei1ZBaTNuO3B27ldigcWWrj1vDEZ yOv0w9jdKQz/xc+9UUpSTptQYYjdFbprpCovT2i6KK/BbR5DwYh+JMPFiDFf9Wqe zQW4vK8ZneI96+KnnLFYNdoR6IAalI+bkcRHVtvx6AUZNebEJCti3vDh6kUe0iDo j58MbP3cyFOw6Ct8mOFgkWaSK6FSPg5nkDNSGhKFODjC4BG4gTV6ocmEIY7uYXQ0 61kpyIp885k63Abjnx74BhZNfQS5f560T/cVDK+Kvzq4Ch68WOOn6GGMRgYSziJX wUEwx258PGMkTKQpCRcoVscoeusYJw== =j0Pe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2WgIL08eodS5fEHFB4r4ECHuGRd9c6w5i--