Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] qcow2.py: dump metadata

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 05:17:24PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> This series includes several improvements to qcow2.py, mostly
> the ability to dump the L1 and L2 tables for a full backing
> chain.
> 
> Doing this completely would require support for all image formats,
> not just qcow2.  To cover the common cases, I included support
> for raw backing files.
> 
> The right thing to do perhaps would be to add the read-metadata
> patches from the in-place QED conversion summer of code project,
> but I wanted to throw out these anyway if anyone has comments.

The patches look sane by themselves but it would be nicer to integrate
with qemu-img by extending the block layer C code rather than
reimplementing part of the block layer in Python for this single command.

Stefan