Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Next gen kvm api

2012-02-06 Thread Rob Earhart
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 02/03/2012 12:13 AM, Rob Earhart wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Avi Kivity > <mailto:a...@redhat.com>> wrote: >> >>     The kvm api has been accumulating cruft for several years now. >>  

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Next gen kvm api

2012-02-03 Thread Rob Earhart
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > The kvm api has been accumulating cruft for several years now. This is > due to feature creep, fixing mistakes, experience gained by the > maintainers and developers on how to do things, ports to new > architectures, and simply as a side effect

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Next gen kvm api

2012-02-03 Thread Rob Earhart
(Resending as plain text to appease vger.kernel.org :-) On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > > The kvm api has been accumulating cruft for several years now.  This is > due to feature creep, fixing mistakes, experience gained by the > maintainers and developers on how to do things,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Use snapshots from backing disks

2010-03-17 Thread Rob Earhart
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 03/08/2010 07:13 PM, Rob Earhart wrote: > >> Modify the snapshot load path to find and load snapshots contained in >> backing >> disks, useful when the current disk is a differencing disk. >> >> Add t

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Use snapshots from backing disks

2010-03-08 Thread Rob Earhart
snapshots from backing disks (which doesn't seem like a problem), and for code which parses the snapshot list output (if any). Signed-off-by: Rob Earhart --- block.c| 10 + block.h|2 + block/qcow2-snapshot.c |

[Qemu-devel] Submitting a change...?

2010-03-08 Thread Rob Earhart
So, I have a patch I'd like to submit. It's pretty simple - when using a differencing disk and loading a snapshot, it includes the backing disks in the search. It seems to work fine on my machine. I'm not sure what the procedure for submitting changes is; it's been a long time since I've contrib