Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 28/36] block: add block-job-complete

2012-06-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/15/2012 09:05 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > While streaming can be dropped as soon as it progressed through the whole > image, mirroring needs to be completed manually for two reasons: 1) so that > management knows exactly when the VM switches to the target; 2) because > for other use cases such

[Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 28/36] block: add block-job-complete

2012-06-15 Thread Paolo Bonzini
While streaming can be dropped as soon as it progressed through the whole image, mirroring needs to be completed manually for two reasons: 1) so that management knows exactly when the VM switches to the target; 2) because for other use cases such as replication, we may leave the operation running f