Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v4 1/2] live-block-ops.txt: Rename, rewrite, and improve it

2017-07-04 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 03:33:49PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > On 06/28/2017 03:15 PM, Alberto Garcia wrote: > > On Wed 28 Jun 2017 04:58:00 PM CEST, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > >> This patch documents (including their QMP invocations) all the four > >> major kinds of live block operations: > >> >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v4 1/2] live-block-ops.txt: Rename, rewrite, and improve it

2017-07-04 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 02:28:55PM +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote: > On Wed 28 Jun 2017 04:58:00 PM CEST, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > > +Once a 'mirror' job has started, there are two possible actions when a > > +``drive-mirror`` job is active: > > + > > +1. Issuing the command ``block-job-cancel``:

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v4 1/2] live-block-ops.txt: Rename, rewrite, and improve it

2017-06-29 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Wed 28 Jun 2017 04:58:00 PM CEST, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > +Once a 'mirror' job has started, there are two possible actions when a > +``drive-mirror`` job is active: > + > +1. Issuing the command ``block-job-cancel``: will, after completing > + synchronization of the content from the disk

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v4 1/2] live-block-ops.txt: Rename, rewrite, and improve it

2017-06-29 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Wed 28 Jun 2017 10:33:49 PM CEST, Eric Blake wrote: >>> +Disk image backing chain notation >>> +- >> [...] >>> +.. important:: >>> +The base disk image can be raw format; however, all the overlay >>> +files must be of QCOW2 format. >> >> This is not

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v4 1/2] live-block-ops.txt: Rename, rewrite, and improve it

2017-06-28 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/28/2017 03:15 PM, Alberto Garcia wrote: > On Wed 28 Jun 2017 04:58:00 PM CEST, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: >> This patch documents (including their QMP invocations) all the four >> major kinds of live block operations: >> >> - `block-stream` >> - `block-commit` >> - `drive-mirror` (&

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v4 1/2] live-block-ops.txt: Rename, rewrite, and improve it

2017-06-28 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Wed 28 Jun 2017 04:58:00 PM CEST, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > This patch documents (including their QMP invocations) all the four > major kinds of live block operations: > > - `block-stream` > - `block-commit` > - `drive-mirror` (& `blockdev-mirror`) > - `drive-backup` (&