On 2/22/19 8:59 AM, Max Reitz wrote: >> >> Is there anything I'm missing? What is the status of that patch? > > Eric sent another version last year: > > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2018-08/msg00513.html > > My main issue is that dd should be a frontend to convert, but it still > isn't. On top, I don't see why we need feature parity with dd when it's > also possible to use qemu-nbd and just the normal dd. > > (Or qemu-blkfuse for which I should sent patches one of these days...) > > I think it's wrong to re-implement existing tools in qemu. Instead, we > should work on making it simpler for those existing tools to access qemu > images. > > Note that while I did rant a bit about the concept of Eric's patch, I > didn't object it in principle. I pointed out two technical issues, Eric > talked about a v2, but that never appeared, I think.
Yeah, it's still on my TODO list, stalled behind incremental backups. It will resurface when I finish my work on making qemu NBD not so awkward when it comes to non-sector-aligned images, but as 4.0 soft freeze is rapidly approaching, that may slip into 4.1. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
