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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8 |
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Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:43:11 +0200 |
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Am 09.06.2010 18:22, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> On 06/09/2010 10:31 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> However, libvirt was counting on this feature and on the snapshot commands
>>> to switch from the text Monitor. We have two options:
>>>
>>> 1. Ask them to wait one more release (not so good for us)
>>> 2. Try to find a way to have those features in for 0.13
>>>
>>> Daniel has commented to me that making the snapshot commands synchronous
>>> for 0.13 wouldn't be that bad, what do you think?
>>>
>> The thought is that changing a command from synchronous to asynchronous is
>> not an ABI incompatible change. An existing app simply won't know to take
>> advantage of the new possibilities that async commands offer.
>>
>
> It's not QMP that's the major issue with savevm. The major issue is
> actually the way snapshots are saved in qcow2. You need to know the
> size of the snapshot prior to creating the snapshot
Huh, why this? Seems I still haven't understood all of qcow2 then... I
always thought that there's just a specific offset where VM state
starts, but no explicit end.
Kevin
- [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for June 8, Chris Wright, 2010/06/08
- [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8, Anthony Liguori, 2010/06/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8, Luiz Capitulino, 2010/06/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8, Anthony Liguori, 2010/06/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8, Luiz Capitulino, 2010/06/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8, Daniel P. Berrange, 2010/06/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8, Anthony Liguori, 2010/06/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8, Daniel P. Berrange, 2010/06/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8,
Kevin Wolf <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8, Anthony Liguori, 2010/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8, Kevin Wolf, 2010/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8, Avi Kivity, 2010/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8, Kevin Wolf, 2010/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8, Anthony Liguori, 2010/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8, Luiz Capitulino, 2010/06/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8, Anthony Liguori, 2010/06/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8, Anthony Liguori, 2010/06/09