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Re: [Qemu-block] [RFC PATCH 00/10] x-blockdev-create for qcow2
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Max Reitz |
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Re: [Qemu-block] [RFC PATCH 00/10] x-blockdev-create for qcow2 |
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Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:23:24 +0100 |
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On 2018-01-11 20:52, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> This series implements a minimal QMP command that allows to create an
> image format on a given block node. The interface is still going to
> change to some kind of an async command (possibly a block job), so I
> prefixed x- for now.
>
> At this point, I'm mostly interested in comments about
> BlockdevCreateOptions in the schema, the .bdrv_co_create callback and
> the way that legacy .bdrv_create is implemented in qcow2 now.
>
> It looks to me as if we will have to keep .bdrv_create in addition to
> the new .bdrv_co_create for a while in all drivers, where the
> implementation of .bdrv_create would call .bdrv_co_create like this
> series does it for qcow2. We'll only be able to drop the old interface
> after deprecating and eventually removing all of the driver-specific
> compatibility work that remains. The example of qcow2 shows that the
> "translation" from old to new is managable, but there are a few
> differences.
Looks good. :-)
Max
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- [Qemu-block] [RFC PATCH 08/10] util: Add qemu_opts_to_qdict_filtered(), Kevin Wolf, 2018/01/11
- [Qemu-block] [RFC PATCH 09/10] qcow2: Use visitor for options in qcow2_create(), Kevin Wolf, 2018/01/11
- [Qemu-block] [RFC PATCH 10/10] block: x-blockdev-create QMP command, Kevin Wolf, 2018/01/11
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/10] x-blockdev-create for qcow2, no-reply, 2018/01/11
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/10] x-blockdev-create for qcow2, no-reply, 2018/01/11
- Re: [Qemu-block] [RFC PATCH 00/10] x-blockdev-create for qcow2, Kevin Wolf, 2018/01/16
- Re: [Qemu-block] [RFC PATCH 00/10] x-blockdev-create for qcow2,
Max Reitz <=