Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] qapi: block-dirty-bitmap-remove transaction action

[Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy]

17.06.2019 19:03, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 17.06.2019 um 13:37 hat Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy geschrieben:
>> 08.06.2019 1:26, John Snow wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/3/19 8:00 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
>>>> Hi all!
>>>>
>>>> Here is block-dirty-bitmap-remove transaction action.
>>>>
>>>> It is used to do transactional movement of the bitmap (which is
>>>> possible in conjunction with merge command). Transactional bitmap
>>>> movement is needed in scenarios with external snapshot, when we don't
>>>> want to leave copy of the bitmap in the base image.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oh, interesting. I see why you want this now. OK, let's do it.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Hi John!
>>
>> Hmm, could you stage it, or should I fix something? Seems I've answered all 
>> questions.
>> We need this for our nearest release and wanting to avoid x-vz- prefixes in 
>> the API,
>> I'd be very grateful if we merge it soon.
> 
> I hope you won't have to do this, but in any case x-vz- isn't the right
> prefix. Please read section '6. Downstream extension of QMP' in
> docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt before adding your own extensions.
> 
> According to the spec, your prefix would be something like
> __com.virtuozzo-...
> 

Thanks for pointing to that, I thought about this some time ago when saw Red 
Hat prefixes..
Still x-vz- is a lot better than nothing and most probably will not intersect 
with future
things. However, we'll move to correct prefixes of course.

-- 
Best regards,
Vladimir