Re: bitmaps -- copying allocation status into dirty bitmaps

2019-12-02 Thread John Snow
On 11/4/19 6:27 AM, Max Reitz wrote: > On 04.11.19 12:21, Max Reitz wrote: >> On 01.11.19 16:42, John Snow wrote: >>> Hi, in one of my infamously unreadable and long status emails, I >>> mentioned possibly wanting to copy allocation data into bitmaps as a way >>> to enable users to create (exter

Re: bitmaps -- copying allocation status into dirty bitmaps

2019-11-04 Thread Max Reitz
On 04.11.19 12:21, Max Reitz wrote: > On 01.11.19 16:42, John Snow wrote: >> Hi, in one of my infamously unreadable and long status emails, I >> mentioned possibly wanting to copy allocation data into bitmaps as a way >> to enable users to create (external) snapshots from outside of the >> libvirt/

Re: bitmaps -- copying allocation status into dirty bitmaps

2019-11-04 Thread Max Reitz
On 01.11.19 16:42, John Snow wrote: > Hi, in one of my infamously unreadable and long status emails, I > mentioned possibly wanting to copy allocation data into bitmaps as a way > to enable users to create (external) snapshots from outside of the > libvirt/qemu context. > > (That is: to repair che

Re: bitmaps -- copying allocation status into dirty bitmaps

2019-11-01 Thread Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
01.11.2019 18:42, John Snow wrote: > Hi, in one of my infamously unreadable and long status emails, I > mentioned possibly wanting to copy allocation data into bitmaps as a way > to enable users to create (external) snapshots from outside of the > libvirt/qemu context. > > (That is: to repair chec

Re: bitmaps -- copying allocation status into dirty bitmaps

2019-11-01 Thread Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
01.11.2019 18:49, Denis Lunev wrote: > On 11/1/19 4:42 PM, John Snow wrote: >> Hi, in one of my infamously unreadable and long status emails, I >> mentioned possibly wanting to copy allocation data into bitmaps as a way >> to enable users to create (external) snapshots from outside of the >> libvir

Re: bitmaps -- copying allocation status into dirty bitmaps

2019-11-01 Thread Eric Blake
On 11/1/19 4:49 PM, Denis V. Lunev wrote: On 11/1/19 4:42 PM, John Snow wrote: Hi, in one of my infamously unreadable and long status emails, I mentioned possibly wanting to copy allocation data into bitmaps as a way to enable users to create (external) snapshots from outside of the libvirt/qemu

Re: bitmaps -- copying allocation status into dirty bitmaps

2019-11-01 Thread Denis V. Lunev
On 11/1/19 4:42 PM, John Snow wrote: > Hi, in one of my infamously unreadable and long status emails, I > mentioned possibly wanting to copy allocation data into bitmaps as a way > to enable users to create (external) snapshots from outside of the > libvirt/qemu context. > > (That is: to repair che

bitmaps -- copying allocation status into dirty bitmaps

2019-11-01 Thread John Snow
Hi, in one of my infamously unreadable and long status emails, I mentioned possibly wanting to copy allocation data into bitmaps as a way to enable users to create (external) snapshots from outside of the libvirt/qemu context. (That is: to repair checkpoints in libvirt after a user extended the ba