Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: new option for snapshot_blkdev to avoid image creation

2011-10-11 Thread Dor Laor
On 10/11/2011 01:56 PM, Federico Simoncelli wrote: - Original Message - From: "Dor Laor" To: "Federico Simoncelli" Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, aba...@redhat.com, "Kevin Wolf" Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 12:45:06 AM Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu:

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: new option for snapshot_blkdev to avoid image creation

2011-10-11 Thread Federico Simoncelli
- Original Message - > From: "Dor Laor" > To: "Federico Simoncelli" > Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, aba...@redhat.com, "Kevin Wolf" > Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 12:45:06 AM > Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: new option for snapshot_bl

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: new option for snapshot_blkdev to avoid image creation

2011-10-06 Thread Dor Laor
On 10/03/2011 06:09 PM, Federico Simoncelli wrote: Add the new option [-n] for snapshot_blkdev to avoid the image creation. The file provided as [new-image-file] is considered as already initialized and will be used after passing a check for the backing file. Seems ok to me as a way to go aroun

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: new option for snapshot_blkdev to avoid image creation

2011-10-03 Thread Federico Simoncelli
Add the new option [-n] for snapshot_blkdev to avoid the image creation. The file provided as [new-image-file] is considered as already initialized and will be used after passing a check for the backing file. Signed-off-by: Federico Simoncelli --- blockdev.c | 54 +