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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specifica
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification |
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Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:49:16 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Am 05.02.2016 um 09:58 hat Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy geschrieben:
> The new feature for qcow2: storing bitmaps.
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> This patch adds new header extension to qcow2 - Bitmaps Extension. It
> provides an ability to store virtual disk related bitmaps in a qcow2
> image. For now there is only one type of such bitmaps: Dirty Tracking
> Bitmap, which just tracks virtual disk changes from some moment.
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> Note: Only bitmaps, relative to the virtual disk, stored in qcow2 file,
> should be stored in this qcow2 file. The size of each bitmap
> (considering its granularity) is equal to virtual disk size.
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> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <address@hidden>
Thanks, applied to the block branch.
Kevin