Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 08/10] add mirroring to transaction

2012-04-06 Thread Paolo Bonzini
> have either a mandatory 'full':'bool' or an optional '*base':'str' > for choosing how much of the backing chain to be mirrored I think '*base': 'str' is too complicated to implement at this stage. Paolo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 08/10] add mirroring to transaction

2012-04-06 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/06/2012 10:56 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > With it comes a new image creation mode, "no-backing-file", that can > be used to stream an image so that the destination does not need the > original image's backing file(s). > > Both bdrv_append and blkmirror will set the backing_hd on the target, >

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 08/10] add mirroring to transaction

2012-03-06 Thread Paolo Bonzini
With it comes a new image creation mode, "no-backing-file", that can be used to stream an image so that the destination does not need the original image's backing file(s). Both bdrv_append and blkmirror will set the backing_hd on the target, even if the image is created without one, so that both s