Re: [Qemu-devel] Moving beyond image files

2011-03-21 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > 2) The daemon maintains metadata for each image that includes an extent > mapping and then a clustered allocated bitmap within each extent (similar to > FVD). s/clustered allocated bitmap/cluster allocation bitmap/ ? > 3) All writes resul

Re: [Qemu-devel] Moving beyond image files

2011-03-21 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 03/21/2011 10:16 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: On 21.03.2011, at 16:05, Anthony Liguori wrote: 5) Copy-on-write references potentially become very interesting for image streaming because you can avoid any I/O for blocks that are already stored locally. This is not fully baked yet but I thoug

Re: [Qemu-devel] Moving beyond image files

2011-03-21 Thread Alexander Graf
On 21.03.2011, at 16:05, Anthony Liguori wrote: > We've been evaluating block migration in a real environment to try to > understand what the overhead of it is compared to normal migration. The > results so far are pretty disappointing. The speed of local disks ends up > becoming a big bottl