Re: nbd block device backend - 'improvements'

2011-02-15 Thread Avi Kivity
On 02/14/2011 07:28 PM, Nicholas Thomas wrote: I'm interested in getting the changes merged upstream, so I thought I'd get in early and ask if you'd be interested in the patch, in principle; whether the old behaviour would need to be preserved, making the new behaviour accessible via a config opt

nbd block device backend - 'improvements'

2011-02-14 Thread Nicholas Thomas
Hi, I've been doing some work with /block/nbd.c with the aim of improving its behaviour when the NBD server is inaccessible or goes away. Current behaviour is to exit on startup if connecting to the NBD server fails for any reason. If the connection dies once KVM is started, the VM stays up but