Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 28th

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 28/02/2012 15:39, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto:
> I'm not a fan of transactions or freeze/thaw (if used to atomically
> perform other commands).
> 
> We should not export low-level block device operations so that
> external software can micromanage via QMP.  I don't think this is a
> good idea because it takes the block device offline and possibly
> blocks the VM.  We're reaching a level comparable to an HTTP interface
> for acquiring pthread mutex, doing some operations, and then another
> HTTP request to unlock it.  This is micromanagement it will create
> more problems because we will have to support lots of little API
> functions.

So you're for extending Jeff's patches to group mirroring etc.?

That's also my favorite one, assuming we can do it in time for 1.1.

Paolo