Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] block: separate raw images from the file protocol

2010-05-05 Thread Stefan Weil
Am 05.05.2010 14:45, schrieb Kevin Wolf: Am 04.05.2010 22:58, schrieb Stefan Weil: This patch (commit 84a12e6648444f517055138a7d7f25a22d7e1029) breaks QEMU for Win32: QEMU can no longer access \\.\PhysicalDrive0 - a feature I use quite often. Found by git bisect, tested like this: qemu \\.\P

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] block: separate raw images from the file protocol

2010-05-05 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 04.05.2010 22:58, schrieb Stefan Weil: > Am 08.04.2010 11:50, schrieb Kevin Wolf: >> Am 07.04.2010 22:30, schrieb Christoph Hellwig: >> >>> We're running into various problems because the "raw" file access, which >>> is used internally by the various image formats is entangled with the >>> "

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] block: separate raw images from the file protocol

2010-05-05 Thread Stefan Weil
Am 08.04.2010 11:50, schrieb Kevin Wolf: Am 07.04.2010 22:30, schrieb Christoph Hellwig: We're running into various problems because the "raw" file access, which is used internally by the various image formats is entangled with the "raw" image format, which maps the VM view 1:1 to a file sys

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] block: separate raw images from the file protocol

2010-04-08 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 07.04.2010 22:30, schrieb Christoph Hellwig: > We're running into various problems because the "raw" file access, which > is used internally by the various image formats is entangled with the > "raw" image format, which maps the VM view 1:1 to a file system. > > This patch renames the raw file

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] block: separate raw images from the file protocol

2010-04-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
We're running into various problems because the "raw" file access, which is used internally by the various image formats is entangled with the "raw" image format, which maps the VM view 1:1 to a file system. This patch renames the raw file backends to the file protocol which is treated like other