On 10/05/2012 05:53 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>
> And looking even more closely, I see disk->transient (not
> implemented in the qemu driver ... why?)
Lack of developer time :) [My usual excuse?]
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On 10/05/2012 06:29 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/05/2012 05:53 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>
>> And looking even more closely, I see disk->transient (not
>> implemented in the qemu driver ... why?)
>
> Lack of developer time :) [My usual excuse?]
By the way, this is:
https://bugzilla.redhat
On 10/05/2012 05:40 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
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> I notice that the qemu driver doesn't support snapshot drives
> (-drive file=foo,snapshot=on). This is important for libguestfs.
>
> Currently libguestfs hacks this using . That works fine for
> static disks in the libvirt XML, but lack of d
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 06:28:32AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/05/2012 05:40 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > A simple implementation therefore would be to add a
> > element to . It would just add snapshot=on and ignore concerns
> > about $TMPDIR.
> >
> > Or reuse the flag? Note that the
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 02:03:44PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 12:32:58PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > No support for digits etc.?
> > The underlying serial field supports digits and more (in fact it's
> > really an arbitra
On Fri, Oct 05, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 12:32:58PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > No support for digits etc.?
> The underlying serial field supports digits and more (in fact it's
> really an arbitrary 20 byte buffer). However I excluded digits in
> this case because the
And looking even more closely, I see disk->transient (not
implemented in the qemu driver ... why?)
Rich.
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On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 01:52:46PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 05/10/2012 13:40, Richard W.M. Jones ha scritto:
> > I'm also concerned about the time is takes to run the external
> > 'qemu-img create' command, which is non-trivial in some versions
> > of qemu. In libguestfs, every millisecond
Il 05/10/2012 13:40, Richard W.M. Jones ha scritto:
> I'm also concerned about the time is takes to run the external
> 'qemu-img create' command, which is non-trivial in some versions
> of qemu. In libguestfs, every millisecond counts.
qemu-img create is a thin wrapper for bdrv_create that would
Reading back over the archives, I see there was a proposal to add a
attribute. I don't think that was ever
adopted.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-July/msg00649.html
Rich.
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I notice that the qemu driver doesn't support snapshot drives
(-drive file=foo,snapshot=on). This is important for libguestfs.
Currently libguestfs hacks this using . That works fine for
static disks in the libvirt XML, but lack of direct support in libvirt
is a blocker for adding hotplugging t
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 12:32:58PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>
> >
>
> +=item C
> +
> +Give the disk a label. The label should be a unique, short
> +string using I ASCII characters C<[a-zA-Z]>.
>
> No support for digits etc.?
The underlying
On Fri, Oct 05, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>
+=item C
+
+Give the disk a label. The label should be a unique, short
+string using I ASCII characters C<[a-zA-Z]>.
No support for digits etc.?
Olaf
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>From 6614d4f1d66921bf002067539b42c126d4bbfdb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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This completes the implementation previously posted here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2012-October/msg2.html
Instead of using 'serial', the option is now called 'label' and these
are collectively called disk labels.
Also the updated patch adds a test.
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