Il 26/02/2013 16:13, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto:
>> > Is there any solution in KVM that works like VAAI does in EXSI, I
>> > found a PPT that posted in Sep. 2012, which said that storage offload
>> > will be consider in future.
>> > I am wondering anybody knows about this, or provide some information about 
>> > this?
> Thin Provisioning support is being added to QEMU.  Some configurations
> already work - virtio-scsi on a block device or raw file supports
> discard, for example.
> 
> Linux recently got Zero Blocks support in the form of the BLKZEROOUT
> ioctl.  It is not being exploited by QEMU or libvirt yet.
> 
> Copy Offload, not aware of active development.  Perhaps libvirt or
> libstoragemgmt will support it.

Copy offload is in the works (still at the whiteboard stage, though).

Paolo
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