On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:16:44 -0500 Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 08/23/2011 07:58 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > These patches put in place the image streaming QMP/HMP commands and > > documentation. Image streaming itself is not implemented by this patch > > series > > but the HMP/QMP commands that libvirt uses are implemented to return > > NotSupported. > > > > The Image Streaming API can be used to copy the contents of a backing file > > into > > the image file while the guest is running. The API is described on the > > wiki: > > http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/LiveBlockMigration/ImageStreamingAPI > > > > The point of this series is to commit QEMU to the API that we have worked > > out > > with libvirt. The QED Image Streaming series that I posted earlier > > provides an > > implementation for the QED image format only. I am currently working on a > > generic block layer implementation so that any format with backing file > > support > > can do image streaming. > > > > For reference, the QED-specific implementation lives here: > > http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/stefanha.git/shortlog/refs/heads/stream-command > > Luiz, can you bring this in through your tree with an Ack from Kevin. Sure.
