On 04/13/2012 11:32 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 13/04/2012 19:09, Eric Blake ha scritto: >>>> +It is also possible to use raw as the format of the destination image. >>>> +Converting an image to raw will properly support thin provisioning. >> Do you need to mention the use of block_job_cancel needed at the point >> where you are ready to stop qemu from writing into the copy? > > No, you need to do this with drive-reopen. Using block_job_cancel will > report completion, but will leave a race window that can cause to > corruption in the guest. Do your libvirt patches do that? O:)
They don't in v4 [1], but I'll fix it to do that in v5. Thanks for the heads up. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-April/msg00330.html -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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