[libvirt] RFC (V2) New virDomainBlockPull API family to libvirt

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Zhi Yong Wu <zwu.kernel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Adam Litke <agl at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>>> On 08/14/2011 11:40 PM, Zhi Yong Wu wrote:
>>>> HI, Deniel and Adam.
>>>>
>>>> Have the patchset been merged into libvirt upstream?
>>>
>>> Yes they have.  However, the functionality is still missing from qemu.
>>> The two communities have agreed upon the interface and semantics, but
>>> work continues on the qemu implementation.  Let me know if you would
>>> like a link to some qemu patches that support this functionality for qed
>>> images.
>>
>> I also have a series to put these commands into QEMU without any image
>> format support.  They just return NotSupported but it puts the
>> commands into QEMU so we can run the libvirt commands against them.
> Without image format support, it will not be a nice sample for us.:)
> Why did you not implement them?

The point is just to commit to the API in QEMU while we do the generic
image streaming implementation that covers all formats that can do
backing files.

Stefan