[Qemu-discuss] qcow2 external snapshots - backup routine

2015-01-27 Thread gunnar wagner
I want to setup a routine for dailybackups of a qemu/kvm VM (using qcow2) using external snapshots (aka overlay omages, ako copy-on-write images) have been recommended an that makes sense to from the backup point of view (need to backup small files) my problem ... the procedure to setup, appl

[Qemu-discuss] Block format 'qcow2' used by device 'drive-virtio0' doesn't support the option 'physical_block_size'

2015-01-27 Thread Hendrik Visage
Good day, Anybody able to guide me the combinations, etc. when and where these are supported? I'm having performance issues on 512e advance format/4Kb disks, and the symptoms for me tells me that I'm hitting the read-modify-write problems as the VMs report 512/512 for the virtio block devices, an

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Block format 'qcow2' used by device 'drive-virtio0' doesn't support the option 'physical_block_size'

2015-01-27 Thread Jakob Bohm
On 27/01/2015 17:52, Hendrik Visage wrote: Good day, Anybody able to guide me the combinations, etc. when and where these are supported? I'm having performance issues on 512e advance format/4Kb disks, and the symptoms for me tells me that I'm hitting the read-modify-write problems as the VMs r

Re: [Qemu-discuss] QEMU: DBT vs. Interpretation

2015-01-27 Thread Dale R. Worley
Javier Picorel writes: > We are trying to make QEMU deterministic for > architectural simulation. In the absence of I/O, > let's say only user code or exceptions, is there > any source of indeterminism (e.g., non deterministic > compiler optimizations, TB indeterminism) of > QEMU's DBT versus