Re: Automatic block overlay creation with freeing the write lock

2023-10-02 Thread Rafael Pizarro Solar
The issue has been solved. The solution of waiting for QEMU to load the base image passed as argument, then create the overlay with `qmp_blockdev_snapshot_sync` didn't work. Instead, we first create a new overlay with `bdrv_image_create`, with backing file the original base image passed as

Automatic block overlay creation with freeing the write lock

2023-09-26 Thread Rafael Pizarro Solar
Dear QEMU maintainers, For reference, I am using QEMU 8.0.0, and running with softmmu-aarch64. I have been trying implement a feature that directly creates an overlay with the goal of booting multiple instances from the same base image. Creating a backing file with `qemu-img` does work, but