[Libguestfs] [PATCH 0/4] v2v: simplify driver copying from virtio-win iso

Roman Kagan rkagan at virtuozzo.com
Thu Oct 1 15:04:03 UTC 2015


On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 06:55:28PM +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> Libguestfs supports passing an ISO image as a source of virtio windows
> drivers to v2v.
> 
> That support, however, looks too heavy-weight: in order to access those
> drivers, a separate guestfs handle is created (and thus a new emulator
> process is started), which runs until v2v completes.
> 
> This series attempts to make it simpler and lighter-weight, by making
> the relevant code more local, and by hot-adding the image into the main
> guestfs handle.
> 
> Roman Kagan (4):
>   v2v: drop useless forced gc
>   v2v: consolidate virtio-win file copying
>   v2v: copy virtio drivers without guestfs handle leak
>   v2v: reuse main guestfs for virtio win drivers iso
> 
>  v2v/convert_windows.ml | 184 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  v2v/utils.ml           | 224 ++++++++++++++++---------------------------------
>  v2v/v2v.ml             |   8 --
>  3 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 253 deletions(-)

I just realized that, although (at least two of) these patches got
"likely ACK", they are not in the libguestfs tree.

The patches still apply to master as of today.

Is there anything I can do to get them merged?

Thanks,
Roman.




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