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Re: [Qemu-devel] Adding Disk-Level Introspection to QEMU
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Adding Disk-Level Introspection to QEMU |
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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:39:40 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 03:11:26PM -0400, Wolfgang Richter wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Wolfgang Richter <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>wrote:
> >
> >> Eric's suggestion to use NBD makes sense to me. The block-backup code
> >> can be extended fairly easier using sync mode=none (do not perform a
> >> background copy of the entire disk) and by disabling the bitmap
> >> (essentially "tap" mode).
> >
> >
> Also, as another thought, I think I can actually use the bitmap to implement
> an optimization. In my code, I already use a bitmap to determine which
> sectors I want to introspect (ignoring portions of the disk greatly reduces
> required bandwidth and overhead; swap space for example isn't generally
> interesting unless you can interpret memory as well). So I think I can
> adapt
> my code here as well.
Cool. By the way, do you actually care about the data being written or
just which sectors were touched?
Stefan
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Adding Disk-Level Introspection to QEMU, (continued)
Re: [Qemu-devel] Adding Disk-Level Introspection to QEMU, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2013/04/23
Re: [Qemu-devel] Adding Disk-Level Introspection to QEMU, Paolo Bonzini, 2013/04/24
Re: [Qemu-devel] Adding Disk-Level Introspection to QEMU, Wolfgang Richter, 2013/04/24
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