[libvirt] [PATCH 1/3] qemu: store guest visible disk size from qemu monitor block info

[Nikolay Shirokovskiy]

On 29.09.2016 23:51, John Ferlan wrote:
> 
>>
>>> a lot of exposure to that code. I do know there's still upstream qemu
>>> work taking place. We really should be very careful about adding
>>> anything to libvirt before the upstream work is done. In particular any
>>> x-* command support.
>>>
>>
>> AFAIK full pull backups as well as full/incremennal push backups are
>> ready to use in qemu. It is a pity that other commands that helps
>> organize pull backup process still has experimental status. One day
>> they drop this x- and I doubt that things will changed very radically
>> in comparison to what we have today. So if with the help of community
>> this patch will be ironed out libvirt will get pull backups instantly
>> after qemu be full ready.
>>
> 
> FWIW: Happened to be scanning through qemu-devel today and came across
> the following topic (which interested me because it's related to other
> work I'm involved in):
> 
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg07721.html
> 
> Anyway a few responses in there's this:
> 
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg07748.html
> 
> and finally this:
> 
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg07773.html
> 
> Since you do rely on blockdev-add - I'd just caution you to not rely on
> something specific...
> 
> 
> John
> 

Thanx for information!