Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] block: block-backup live backup command

2013-04-29 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 01:37:07PM +0800, Wenchao Xia wrote: > 于 2013-4-24 0:25, Stefan Hajnoczi 写道: > > This series adds a new QMP command, block-backup, which takes a > > point-in-time > > snapshot of a block device. The snapshot is copied out to a target block > > device. A simple example is:

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] block: block-backup live backup command

2013-04-26 Thread Wenchao Xia
于 2013-4-24 0:25, Stefan Hajnoczi 写道: > This series adds a new QMP command, block-backup, which takes a point-in-time > snapshot of a block device. The snapshot is copied out to a target block > device. A simple example is: > >block-backup device=virtio0 format=qcow2 target=backup-20130401.q

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] block: block-backup live backup command

2013-04-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/24/2013 01:41 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >>> >>> 2. Sync modes like drive-mirror (top, full, none). This makes it possible >>> to >>>preserve the backing file chain. >> >> Based on today's phone call, it sounds like this would mean adding >> optional parameters to the QMP command. >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] block: block-backup live backup command

2013-04-24 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:49:35AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 04/23/2013 10:25 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > This series adds a new QMP command, block-backup, which takes a > > point-in-time > > snapshot of a block device. The snapshot is copied out to a target block > > device. A simple exa

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] block: block-backup live backup command

2013-04-23 Thread Paolo Bonzini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 23/04/2013 18:49, Eric Blake ha scritto: > Based on today's phone call, it sounds like this would mean adding > optional parameters to the QMP command. We already did that for > drive-mirror (1.4 has more parameters than 1.3), but without a way >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] block: block-backup live backup command

2013-04-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/23/2013 10:25 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > This series adds a new QMP command, block-backup, which takes a point-in-time > snapshot of a block device. The snapshot is copied out to a target block > device. A simple example is: > > block-backup device=virtio0 format=qcow2 target=backup-20

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] block: block-backup live backup command

2013-04-23 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
This series adds a new QMP command, block-backup, which takes a point-in-time snapshot of a block device. The snapshot is copied out to a target block device. A simple example is: block-backup device=virtio0 format=qcow2 target=backup-20130401.qcow2 The original block-backup blockjob was writ