On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 01:46:56PM +0800, Wenchao Xia wrote: > This series brings internal snapshot support at block devices level, now we > have two three methods to do block snapshot lively: 1) backing chain, > 2) internal one and 3) drive-back up approach. > > Comparation: > Advantages: Disadvantages: > 1) delta data, taken fast, export, size performance, delete slow. > 2) taken fast, delete fast, performance, size delta data, format > 3) performance, export, format taken slow, delta data, size > > I think in most case, saving vmstate in an standalone file is better than > saving it inside qcow2, So suggest treat internal snapshot as block level > methods and not encourage user to savevm in qcow2 any more. > > Implemention details: > To avoid trouble, this serial have hide ID in create interfaces, this make > sure no chaos of ID and name will be introduced by these interfaces. > There is one patch may be common to Pavel's savvm transaction, patch 1/11, > others are not quite related. Patch 1/11 will not set errp when no snapshot > find, since patch 3/11 need to distinguish real error case. > > Next steps to better full VM snapshot: > Improve internal snapshot's export capability. > Better vmstate saving. > > Thanks Kevin to give advisement about how add it in qmp_transaction, oldest > version comes drom Dietmar Maurer. > > v3: > General: > Rebased after Stenfan's driver-backup patch V6. > > Address Eric's comments: > 4/9: grammar fix and better doc. > 5/9: parameter name is mandatory now. grammar fix. > 6/9: redesiged interface: take both id and name as optional parameter, > return > the deleted snapshot's info. > > Address Stefan's comments: > 4/9: add '' around %s in message. drop code comments about vm_clock. > 9/9: better doc, refined the code and add more test case. > > v4: > Address Stefan's comments: > 4/9: use error_setg_errno() to show error reason for bdrv_snapshot_create(), > spell fix and better doc. > 5/9: better doc. > 6/9: remove spurious ';' in code, spell fix and better doc. > > v5: > Address Kevin's comments: > 3/8, 4/8, 8/8: remove the limit of numeric snapshot name. > General change: > 4/8: use existing type as parameter in qapi schema. > > Wenchao Xia (8): > 1 snapshot: new function bdrv_snapshot_find_by_id_and_name() > 2 snapshot: distinguish id and name in snapshot delete > 3 qmp: add internal snapshot support in qmp_transaction > 4 qmp: add interface blockdev-snapshot-internal-sync > 5 qmp: add interface blockdev-snapshot-delete-internal-sync > 6 hmp: add interface hmp_snapshot_blkdev_internal > 7 hmp: add interface hmp_snapshot_delete_blkdev_internal > 8 qemu-iotests: add 056 internal snapshot for block device test case > > block/qcow2-snapshot.c | 66 +++++++++--- > block/qcow2.h | 5 +- > block/rbd.c | 23 ++++- > block/sheepdog.c | 5 +- > block/snapshot.c | 109 ++++++++++++++++++- > blockdev.c | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > hmp-commands.hx | 37 ++++++- > hmp.c | 22 ++++ > hmp.h | 2 + > include/block/block_int.h | 5 +- > include/block/snapshot.h | 11 ++- > include/qemu-common.h | 3 + > qapi-schema.json | 65 +++++++++++- > qemu-img.c | 5 +- > qmp-commands.hx | 104 ++++++++++++++++-- > savevm.c | 10 ++- > tests/qemu-iotests/056 | 259 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > tests/qemu-iotests/056.out | 5 + > tests/qemu-iotests/group | 1 + > 19 files changed, 890 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) > create mode 100755 tests/qemu-iotests/056 > create mode 100644 tests/qemu-iotests/056.out
Kevin: Are you happy with the issue you pointed out last revision?
