Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [patch 2/3] Add support for live block copy

[Anthony Liguori]

On 03/02/2011 11:30 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > It's really the natural generalization
> > of what you're proposing.
> >
> > So basically, the only differences are:
> >
> >  1) always use the new RAID1 format
> >  2) drop the progress bitmap
> >  3) support multiple devices per file
> >  4) let drive properties be specified beyond filename
> >
> > All reasonable things to do.
>
> Well, I dislike 3, and the whole "qemu is authoritative source of 
> configuration" thing.

Yeah, at this point, I think the new no-stored-state approach is 
obviously better than anything proposed.  So we'll have to revisit this 
discussion if/when there's another use-case that demands it.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori