Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] To mount qemu disk image on the host

Le vendredi 25 janvier 2008 à 20:52 +0100, Andre Przywara a écrit : > Laurent Vivier wrote: > > Le vendredi 25 janvier 2008 à 09:18 -0600, Anthony Liguori a écrit : > >> Laurent Vivier wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> this patch allows to mount qemu disk images on the host. > >>> > > > > Sorry, I d

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] To mount qemu disk image on the host

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 02:27:34PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Andre Przywara wrote: > >Laurent Vivier wrote: > > > >>What I'm wondering is how loop and device mapper can work ? > >I shortly evaluated the loop device idea, but came to the conclusion > >that this not so easy to implement (and w

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] To mount qemu disk image on the host

Andre Przywara wrote: Laurent Vivier wrote: What I'm wondering is how loop and device mapper can work ? I shortly evaluated the loop device idea, but came to the conclusion that this not so easy to implement (and would require qcow code in the kernel). I see only little chance for this go ups

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] To mount qemu disk image on the host

Laurent Vivier wrote: Le vendredi 25 janvier 2008 à 09:18 -0600, Anthony Liguori a écrit : Laurent Vivier wrote: Hi, this patch allows to mount qemu disk images on the host. Sorry, I didn't see you did a similar work 19 months ago. Note, the general problem with this approach is that moun

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] To mount qemu disk image on the host

Le vendredi 25 janvier 2008 à 09:18 -0600, Anthony Liguori a écrit : > Laurent Vivier wrote: > > Hi, > > > > this patch allows to mount qemu disk images on the host. > > Sorry, I didn't see you did a similar work 19 months ago. > Note, the general problem with this approach is that mounting a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] To mount qemu disk image on the host

Laurent Vivier wrote: Hi, this patch allows to mount qemu disk images on the host. Note, the general problem with this approach is that mounting a NBD device locally with write access can lead to dead locks. If you look through the mailing list archives, you'll find a number of conversat

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] To mount qemu disk image on the host

Laurent Vivier wrote: Hi, this patch allows to mount qemu disk images on the host. It is based on the Network Block Device protocol and allows qemu-img to become an NBD server (Yes, Anthony, userspace block device is the right way to do that... :-P ). FYI, I've been maintaining qemu-nbd ou

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] To mount qemu disk image on the host

Le vendredi 25 janvier 2008 à 14:37 +0100, Alexander Graf a écrit : > On Jan 25, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Laurent Vivier wrote: > > > Le vendredi 25 janvier 2008 à 12:48 +, Johannes Schindelin a > > écrit : > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Laurent Vivier wrote: > >> > >>> this patch allows t

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] To mount qemu disk image on the host

On Jan 25, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Laurent Vivier wrote: Le vendredi 25 janvier 2008 à 12:48 +, Johannes Schindelin a écrit : Hi, On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Laurent Vivier wrote: this patch allows to mount qemu disk images on the host. This patch has an awful lot of "#ifdef __linux__" in it. Bu

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] To mount qemu disk image on the host

Le vendredi 25 janvier 2008 à 12:48 +, Johannes Schindelin a écrit : > Hi, > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Laurent Vivier wrote: > > > this patch allows to mount qemu disk images on the host. > > This patch has an awful lot of "#ifdef __linux__" in it. But I imagine > that you could use it on a n

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] To mount qemu disk image on the host

Hi, On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Laurent Vivier wrote: > this patch allows to mount qemu disk images on the host. This patch has an awful lot of "#ifdef __linux__" in it. But I imagine that you could use it on a non-linux host, too, for example with yet another qemu instance running Linux... Or coLi