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Re: [Qemu-devel] Loadable block drivers?
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Loadable block drivers? |
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Wed, 4 Apr 2018 14:41:22 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) |
On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 11:30:33AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> On Tue, 04/03 13:17, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> > On 3 April 2018 at 13:11, Fam Zheng <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 04/03 12:59, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> > > > Hi all, was looking at developing a block driver for qemu - have
> > > > examined
> > > > the drivers at:
> > > >
> > > > https://github.com/qemu/qemu/tree/master/block
> > > >
> > > > And it seems straightforward enough.
> > > >
> > > > One thing that is unclear - all the drivers appear to be compiled
> > > directly
> > > > into qemu. Is there no way to load them dynamically as .so modules?
> > >
> > > './configure --enable-modules' will enable building block drivers as .so
> > > objects, and they are loaded dynamically. These are in-tree .so modules;
> > > out-of-tree modules like in Linux kernel are intentionally forbidden.
> > >
> > > Fam
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > Rats, I take it that means I can't develop a testing block module and load
> > it with an pre-existing qemu install.
>
> No, that's not possible.
Depending on what you are trying to do, you could use the blkdebug,
null-co, NBD, or iSCSI drivers to perform your testing.
blkdebug does fault injection (e.g. you can test what happens when
certain I/O requests fail).
null-co is a nop block driver useful for some types of performance
testing and it also supports introducing an artificial delays.
NBD and iSCSI can be used to forward I/O requests to an external server
where you can implement any behavior you want.
We can discuss it more if you can explain what you're trying to do.
Stefan
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