[libvirt] compressed stream support

[Vasiliy Tolstov]

2015-08-21 19:30 GMT+03:00 Vasiliy Tolstov <v.tolstov at selfip.ru>:
> I want to able to get VolumeUpload and VolumeUpload compressed on the
> fly (for example to minimize network load)
> Some times ago i ask this question in this list, and get some
> suggestions from developers.
> But as i see, May be not good to detect compressor from libvirt
> config, but create new stream functions that have in flags somewhere
> compressor type.
> So when data uploaded/downloaded stream Recv/Send functions able to
> compress/decompress on the fly.
> But i'm not understand some things:
> 1) user run volumedownload with offset (uncompressed size) and length.
> But when user recieve data - resulted len < requested len. How to deal
> with this?
> 2) how to display progress when downloading/uploading data? in case of
> uncompressed size thing very simple (i know all size and transfered),
> but in case of compressed data how to determine progress ?
>
> Thanks!


Any suggestions from devs ?

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Vasiliy Tolstov,
e-mail: v.tolstov at selfip.ru