Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm

[Anthony Liguori]

On 05/25/2010 08:55 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 05/25/2010 04:53 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > I'm still not convinced that we need either. I share Christoph's concern
> > that we would make our life harder for almost no gain. It's probably a
> > very small group of users (if it exists at all) that wants to add new
> > block drivers themselves, but at the same time can't run upstream qemu.
>
> The first part of your argument may be true, but the second isn't.  No 
> user can run upstream qemu.git.  It's not tested or supported, and has 
> no backwards compatibility guarantees.

Yes, it does have backwards compatibility guarantees.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori