[Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 0/5] export internal snapshot by qemu-nbd

[Wenchao Xia]

This series allow user to read internal snapshot's contents without qemu-img
convert.

V2:
  Address Stefan's comments:
  02: add 'fall through' comments in the case statement.
  03: add doc about the difference of internal snapshot and backing chain
snapshot, which is used in previous '--snapshot' parameter.
  Other:
  01,04: rebased on upstream with conflict resolved.

v3:
  Address Paolo's comments:
  02: add parameter "-l snapshot_id_or_name", rename options
snapshot-load to load-snapshot, use QemuOpts.
  03: rename snapshot-load to load-snapshot.
  04: related change to test both -l and -L case.
  05-07: add similar parameter for qemu-img convert.
  Other:
  01: foldered original snapshot logic into function
bdrv_snapshot_load_tmp_by_id_or_name(), since multiple
caller present in this version. Refined error message from
", reason: %s" to ": %s".
  02: Refined error message from ", reason: %s" to ": %s".
  03: Rename PARAM to SNAPSHOT_PARAM.

v4:
  Address Eric's comments:
  01: typo fix.
  02: squashed patch. Use only one option -l and distiguish
the cases by the starting string.
  03: remove 'eval', remove '_supported_os Linux', remove the
comments that have typo.
  04: squashed patch. Add only one option -l and distiguish
the cases by the starting string.
  05: remove indentation.
  Address Paolo's comments:
  02: Use only one option -l and distiguish the cases by
the starting string.
  04: Use only one option -l and distiguish the cases by
the starting string, mark old -s as deprecated, added doc
for them.

Wenchao Xia (5):
  1 snapshot: distinguish id and name in load_tmp
  2 qemu-nbd: support internal snapshot export
  3 qemu-iotests: add 058 internal snapshot export with qemu-nbd case
  4 qemu-img: add -l for snapshot in convert
  5 qemu-iotests: add test for snapshot in qemu-img convert

 block/qcow2-snapshot.c     |   16 +++++-
 block/qcow2.h              |    5 ++-
 block/snapshot.c           |   78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 include/block/block_int.h  |    4 +-
 include/block/snapshot.h   |   15 +++++-
 qemu-img-cmds.hx           |    2 +-
 qemu-img.c                 |   45 ++++++++++++++---
 qemu-img.texi              |   12 +++--
 qemu-nbd.c                 |   47 +++++++++++++++++-
 qemu-nbd.texi              |    8 +++-
 tests/qemu-iotests/058     |  119 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tests/qemu-iotests/058.out |   44 ++++++++++++++++
 tests/qemu-iotests/check   |    1 +
 tests/qemu-iotests/group   |    1 +
 14 files changed, 374 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 tests/qemu-iotests/058
 create mode 100644 tests/qemu-iotests/058.out