Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [PATCH v3] Add support for fd: protocol

2011-07-26 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 26.07.2011 16:00, schrieb Eric Blake: > On 07/26/2011 06:51 AM, Corey Bryant wrote: >> There are some additional features provided by certain image types >> where Qemu reopens the image file. All of these scenarios will be >> unsupported for the fd: protocol, at least for this patch: >> >>-

Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [PATCH v3] Add support for fd: protocol

2011-07-26 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/26/2011 07:02 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: I have to say I really hate it. We've been working hard on getting rid of special cases in the qemu block layer, and this sprinkles them all over. I'd recommend to fix your security model instead. What is it that you hate - the particular qemu

Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [PATCH v3] Add support for fd: protocol

2011-07-26 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/26/2011 06:51 AM, Corey Bryant wrote: There are some additional features provided by certain image types where Qemu reopens the image file. All of these scenarios will be unsupported for the fd: protocol, at least for this patch: - The -snapshot command line option - The savevm monit