Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/8] QED image streaming

2011-04-27 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > This patch series is structured as follows and is based on work that Adam > Litke, Anthony Liguori, and I have done: > > [PATCH 1/8] block: add bdrv_aio_stream > >  Introduce the .bdrv_aio_stream() BlockDriver interface. > > [PATCH 2/8] qmp

[Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/8] QED image streaming

2011-04-27 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
This patch series adds image streaming support for QED image files. Other image formats can be supported in the future. Image streaming populates the file in the background while the guest is running. This makes it possible to start the guest before its image file has been fully provisioned. Ex