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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v22 00/30] qcow2: persistent dirty bitmaps
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v22 00/30] qcow2: persistent dirty bitmaps |
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Fri, 17 Nov 2017 10:56:13 -0600 |
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On 11/17/2017 10:17 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
>> Nothing in this series touched qemu-img. At the very minimum, it would
>> be nice if 'qemu-img info' were to display a summary of all bitmaps in
>> the qcow2 file; the QMP type ImageInfoSpecificQCow2 should be updated to
>> mention this information, and qemu-img updated to output it. Being able
>> to create and remove persistent bitmaps from an at-rest qcow2 file
>> without having to fire up qemu to issue QMP commands to do so would also
>> be nice.
>>
>> It's a bit late for getting this request into 2.12, but had it been
Make that "too late for 2.11"
>> available, it would make my work at testing that 'qemu-img commit'
>> doesn't corrupt persistent bitmaps.
>>
>
> You are right, this is needed, but I can't promise something for the
> nearest future..
And as we both agree it is work for 2.12 or later, it is not needed
right away; so we have a couple of months.
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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266
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