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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] RFC: Add new block driver for the VDI format (aio v
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Stefan Weil |
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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] RFC: Add new block driver for the VDI format (aio version) |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:58:36 +0200 |
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Stefan Weil schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> this mail will be followed by two patches which
> allow QEMU to create, read and write VDI images.
> VDI is the native image format of SUN's VirtualBox emulator.
>
> The code was written from scratch for QEMU, while earlier patches
> sent to Qemu-devel were wrappers for code from VirtualBox. See
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-07/msg00366.html
> for those patches.
>
> Patch 1 adds uuid support to QEMU and can be used independent of
> the second patch (look for uuid in vl.c, for example).
>
> Patch 2 adds the VDI block driver. It only needs uuid support
> when a new image is created (without uuid, it will create an image
> with zeroed "uuid" values), so this second patch is semi-independent
> of the first.
>
> Please test, comment and add both patches to QEMU master
> (if there are no objections).
>
> Regards
>
> Stefan Weil
The new version of the VDI block driver adds these changes:
* Fix allocation of new blocks. The old code did not update the image
header,
so after a new program start, new allocations had overwritten old ones.
This is something still untested by qemu-iotests.
* Fix endianess issues. I'm sorry I could not test it up to now,
but it should work nevertheless :-)
* Support asynchronous i/o. The synchronous code is still included as a
compile time option, but the default is asynchronous, and it works.
I'm very sure the aio code can be improved, and some parts are
even unnecessary (at least I think so), so if you are a
block driver expert: please review the code and send comments.
* Support checking of VDI images. These consistency checks were very
helpful during driver development!
* Support static images. Static images use pre-allocated blocks
while dynamic images (default) allocate blocks on demand.
Here is an overview of the new patches:
* Patch 1 adds UUID support to QEMU. This update of the old patch was
needed because of changes in QEMU's configure / Makefiles.
Please commit it to QEMU master, so I don't have to fix and resend it
when there are additional changes in these files.
* Patch 2 is the new VDI block driver. Reviews and suggestions are
welcome.
* Patch 3 fixes qemu-io-tests to support the new VDI block driver
(needed because of new option for static images).
The latest code is also available from http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/ar7.git
Regards
Stefan Weil
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] RFC: Add new block driver for the VDI format, Anthony Liguori, 2009/07/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] RFC: Add new block driver for the VDI format, Stefan Weil, 2009/07/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] RFC: Add new block driver for the VDI format, Anthony Liguori, 2009/07/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] RFC: Add new block driver for the VDI format, Kevin Wolf, 2009/07/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] RFC: Add new block driver for the VDI format, Jamie Lokier, 2009/07/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] RFC: Add new block driver for the VDI format, Christoph Hellwig, 2009/07/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] RFC: Add new block driver for the VDI format, Kevin Wolf, 2009/07/07
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] RFC: Add new block driver for the VDI format (aio version),
Stefan Weil <=
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Check availability of uuid header / lib, Stefan Weil, 2009/07/23
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add new block driver for the VDI format (use aio), Stefan Weil, 2009/07/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add new block driver for the VDI format (use aio), Kevin Wolf, 2009/07/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add new block driver for the VDI format (use aio), Stefan Weil, 2009/07/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add new block driver for the VDI format (use aio), Kevin Wolf, 2009/07/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add new block driver for the VDI format (use aio), Jamie Lokier, 2009/07/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add new block driver for the VDI format (use aio), Amit Shah, 2009/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add new block driver for the VDI format (use aio), Jamie Lokier, 2009/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add new block driver for the VDI format (use aio), Daniel P. Berrange, 2009/07/28