[libvirt] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Support online resizing of block devices.

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon Nov 28 21:34:40 UTC 2011


On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 02:24:52PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/25/2011 11:51 PM, Osier Yang wrote:
> > This patch series introduce new API "virDomainBlockResize" to expose
> > qemu monitor command "block_size", which is for resizing the a block
> > device while the domain is running.
> > 
> > The prototype for the new API is:
> > 
> >     int
> >     virDomainBlockResize (virDomainPtr dom,
> >                           const char *path,
> >                           unsigned long long size,
> >                           unsigned int flags)
> 
> While looking through old mails, I noticed this had never been applied.
>  Is it something you could revive and rebase to the latest libvirt.git?

IIRC, at the time the blocker was a question mark over the impl
of the underlying QEMU command. We have since resolved the QEMU
issue, so there's no reason not to apply this now.


Daniel
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