Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] block: JSON filenames and relative backing files

2014-10-29 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 23.10.2014 um 20:00 hat Max Reitz geschrieben: > On 23.10.2014 19:42, Eric Blake wrote: > >On 10/23/2014 08:56 AM, Max Reitz wrote: > >>When using a relative backing file name, qemu needs to know the > >>directory of the top image file. For JSON filenames, such a directory > >>cannot be easily d

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] block: JSON filenames and relative backing files

2014-10-23 Thread Max Reitz
On 23.10.2014 19:42, Eric Blake wrote: On 10/23/2014 08:56 AM, Max Reitz wrote: When using a relative backing file name, qemu needs to know the directory of the top image file. For JSON filenames, such a directory cannot be easily determined (e.g. how do you determine the directory of a qcow2 BD

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] block: JSON filenames and relative backing files

2014-10-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/23/2014 08:56 AM, Max Reitz wrote: > When using a relative backing file name, qemu needs to know the > directory of the top image file. For JSON filenames, such a directory > cannot be easily determined (e.g. how do you determine the directory of > a qcow2 BDS directly on top of a quorum BDS?

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] block: JSON filenames and relative backing files

2014-10-23 Thread Max Reitz
When using a relative backing file name, qemu needs to know the directory of the top image file. For JSON filenames, such a directory cannot be easily determined (e.g. how do you determine the directory of a qcow2 BDS directly on top of a quorum BDS?). Therefore, do not allow relative filenames for