Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 1/2] block/vxhs.c: Add support for a new block device type called "vxhs"

[ashish mittal]

We have retained the original syntax in v7 per the following
suggestion on libvirt thread -

>> That is correct. Above syntax would also work for us. I will pose this
>> suggestion to the qemu community and update with their response.
>>

It's not that important... I was looking for a simplification and
generation of only what's required. You can continue using the server
syntax - perhaps just leave a note/comment in the code indicating the
decision point and move on.


On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 2:08 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 05:55:47PM -0800, ashish mittal wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There has been some work going on on the VxHS libvirt patches and we
>> are making good progress.
>>
>> A suggestion has been made on the libvirt community to check if we can
>> change the qemu VxHS device specification syntax as follows.
>>
>> Replace
>>
>> (a) +file.server.host=192.168.0.1,file.server.port=9999
>>
>> with
>>
>> (b) +file.host=192.168.0.1,file.port=9999
>>
>> The reasoning being that since we have only one host (true as the
>> failover is now being handled completely/transparently) within the
>> libqnio library), the "server" part is redundant.
>
> Sounds good to me.
>
> Stefan