[libvirt] [PATCH 2/4] QED: Basic support for QED images

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Fri Nov 19 23:05:38 UTC 2010


On 11/19/2010 09:18 AM, Adam Litke wrote:
> Add an entry in fileTypeInfo for QED image files.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl at us.ibm.com>
> Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefan.hajnoczi at uk.ibm.com>
> Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  src/util/storage_file.c |    9 ++++++++-
>  src/util/storage_file.h |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 

>  
> +#define QED_HDR_IMAGE_SIZE 40

Given that other formats broke it out by fields, I did likewise for this
one.

> +
>  /* VMDK needs at least this to find backing store,
>   * other formats need less */
>  #define STORAGE_MAX_HEAD (20*512)
> @@ -151,6 +153,11 @@ static struct FileTypeInfo const fileTypeInfo[] = {
>          LV_BIG_ENDIAN, 4, 2,
>          QCOWX_HDR_IMAGE_SIZE, 8, 1, QCOW2_HDR_CRYPT, qcow2GetBackingStore,
>      },
> +    [VIR_STORAGE_FILE_QED] = {

I'm amending this patch to add a comment to a decent reference URL
(other file types should probably likewise add a reference URL, but that
can come later).

> +        "QED\0", NULL,
> +        LV_LITTLE_ENDIAN, -1, -1,
> +        QED_HDR_IMAGE_SIZE, 8, 1, -1, NULL,

Why no backing store extraction function?  Not a show-stopper to this
patch, but something to consider adding.

ACK as amended:

diff --git i/src/util/storage_file.c w/src/util/storage_file.c
index 5fe11a3..c011544 100644
--- i/src/util/storage_file.c
+++ w/src/util/storage_file.c
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static int vmdk4GetBackingStore(char **, int *,
 #define QCOW2_HDR_EXTENSION_END 0
 #define QCOW2_HDR_EXTENSION_BACKING_FORMAT 0xE2792ACA

-#define QED_HDR_IMAGE_SIZE 40
+#define QED_HDR_IMAGE_SIZE (4+4+4+4+8+8+8)

 /* VMDK needs at least this to find backing store,
  * other formats need less */
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ static struct FileTypeInfo const fileTypeInfo[] = {
         QCOWX_HDR_IMAGE_SIZE, 8, 1, QCOW2_HDR_CRYPT, qcow2GetBackingStore,
     },
     [VIR_STORAGE_FILE_QED] = {
+        /* http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QED */
         "QED\0", NULL,
         LV_LITTLE_ENDIAN, -1, -1,
         QED_HDR_IMAGE_SIZE, 8, 1, -1, NULL,


-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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