Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2 v8] add-cow file format

2012-04-25 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Dong Xu Wang wrote: QEMU normally does not cache data, only metadata. There are a couple of reasons: 1. The host page cache already provides this, we don't need to duplicate this in QEMU. The user can decide whether to cache data in host memory or not using the

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2 v8] add-cow file format

2012-04-18 Thread Dong Xu Wang
From: Dong Xu Wang Provide a new file format: add-cow. The usage can be found in add-cow.txt of this patch. CC: Marcelo Tosatti CC: Kevin Wolf CC: Stefan Hajnoczi Signed-off-by: Dong Xu Wang --- Makefile.objs |1 + block.c|2 +- block.h|1