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Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 28th
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 28th |
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Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:58:55 +0000 |
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Il 28/02/2012 15:39, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto:
>> I'm not a fan of transactions or freeze/thaw (if used to atomically
>> perform other commands).
>>
>> We should not export low-level block device operations so that
>> external software can micromanage via QMP. I don't think this is a
>> good idea because it takes the block device offline and possibly
>> blocks the VM. We're reaching a level comparable to an HTTP interface
>> for acquiring pthread mutex, doing some operations, and then another
>> HTTP request to unlock it. This is micromanagement it will create
>> more problems because we will have to support lots of little API
>> functions.
>
> So you're for extending Jeff's patches to group mirroring etc.?
>
> That's also my favorite one, assuming we can do it in time for 1.1.
Yes, that's the approach I like the most. It's relatively clean and
leaves us space to develop -blockdev.
Stefan
- [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 28th, Juan Quintela, 2012/02/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 28th, Eric Blake, 2012/02/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 28th, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/02/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 28th, Anthony Liguori, 2012/02/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 28th, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/02/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 28th, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/02/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 28th, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/02/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 28th,
Stefan Hajnoczi <=
- [Qemu-devel] blockdev operations [was: KVM call agenda for Tuesday 28th], Eric Blake, 2012/02/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] blockdev operations [was: KVM call agenda for Tuesday 28th], Paolo Bonzini, 2012/02/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] blockdev operations [was: KVM call agenda for Tuesday 28th], Kevin Wolf, 2012/02/29