On 10.09.2015 15:39, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> One of the limitations of the 'blockdev-snapshot-sync' command is that
> it does not allow passing BlockdevOptions to the newly created
> snapshots, so they are always opened using the default values.
> 
> Extending the command to allow passing options is not a practical
> solution because there is overlap between those options and some of
> the existing parameters of the command.
> 
> This patch introduces a new 'blockdev-snapshot' command with a simpler
> interface: it just takes two references to existing block devices that
> will be used as the source and target for the snapshot.
> 
> Since the main difference between the two commands is that one of them
> creates and opens the target image, while the other uses an already
> opened one, the bulk of the implementation is shared.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <be...@igalia.com>
> ---
>  blockdev.c           | 163 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  qapi-schema.json     |   2 +
>  qapi/block-core.json |  26 ++++++++
>  qmp-commands.hx      |  29 +++++++++
>  4 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com>

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