On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:22:23PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/15/2013 03:04 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:57:12PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> QEMU-KVM BZ 955734, and libvirt BZ 905125 are about feature "Read-only > >> point-in-time throwaway snapshot". The development is ongoing on > >> upstream, which implements the core functionality by QMP command > >> drive-backup. I want to demonstrate the HMP/QMP commands here for image > >> fleecing tasks (again) and make sure this interface looks ready and > >> satisfying from Libvirt point of view. > > I'm wondering if we can still get something committed in time for the > freeze for 1.1.1. At this point, we're close enough to the freeze, and > with no patches submitted in libvirt and the qemu design still under > discussion, that I'm worried about whether we are rushing things too > much to take a new interface this late in a libvirt release cycle, or > whether we should wait until after 1.1.1 before attempting to add > things. On the other hand, if we can agree on a sane design now (or at > least before rc2, if we miss rc1), then we can commit to that design for > this libvirt release, and downstream distros can use libvirt 1.1.1 as a > starting point for rebases without worrying about so-name compatibility, > by signing up to the efforts of backporting actual implementation from > future upstream qemu and libvirt releases. IMHO we've missed the boat for adding new APIs in this release, particularly given that there isn't even an finalized design & implementation ready to review. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list