Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification

2016-02-03 Thread Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
On 04.02.2016 05:25, Fam Zheng wrote: On Wed, 02/03 20:16, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: On 03.02.2016 17:41, Fam Zheng wrote: On Wed, 02/03 16:45, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: Also current scheme is made like one for snapshots. Okay, then I'll be fine with being consistent. +

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification

2016-02-03 Thread Fam Zheng
On Wed, 02/03 20:16, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: > On 03.02.2016 17:41, Fam Zheng wrote: > >On Wed, 02/03 16:45, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: > >>Also current scheme is made like one for snapshots. > >Okay, then I'll be fine with being consistent. > > > > > + > + > +=== B

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification

2016-02-03 Thread Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
On 03.02.2016 17:41, Fam Zheng wrote: On Wed, 02/03 16:45, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: Also current scheme is made like one for snapshots. Okay, then I'll be fine with being consistent. + + +=== Bitmap table === + +Bitmaps are stored using a one-level structure (as opposed to two-lev

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification

2016-02-03 Thread Fam Zheng
On Wed, 02/03 16:45, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: > Also current scheme is made like one for snapshots. Okay, then I'll be fine with being consistent. > > > > >>+ > >>+ > >>+=== Bitmap table === > >>+ > >>+Bitmaps are stored using a one-level structure (as opposed to two-level > >>+struc

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification

2016-02-03 Thread Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
On 03.02.2016 11:04, Fam Zheng wrote: On Tue, 02/02 09:35, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: The new feature for qcow2: storing bitmaps. This patch adds new header extension to qcow2 - Bitmaps Extension. It provides an ability to store virtual disk related bitmaps in a qcow2 image. For now th

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification

2016-02-03 Thread Fam Zheng
On Tue, 02/02 09:35, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: > The new feature for qcow2: storing bitmaps. > > This patch adds new header extension to qcow2 - Bitmaps Extension. It > provides an ability to store virtual disk related bitmaps in a qcow2 > image. For now there is only one type of such bi

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification

2016-02-01 Thread Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
The new feature for qcow2: storing bitmaps. This patch adds new header extension to qcow2 - Bitmaps Extension. It provides an ability to store virtual disk related bitmaps in a qcow2 image. For now there is only one type of such bitmaps: Dirty Tracking Bitmap, which just tracks virtual disk change