Am 09.06.2010 18:22, schrieb Anthony Liguori: > On 06/09/2010 10:31 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >>> However, libvirt was counting on this feature and on the snapshot commands >>> to switch from the text Monitor. We have two options: >>> >>> 1. Ask them to wait one more release (not so good for us) >>> 2. Try to find a way to have those features in for 0.13 >>> >>> Daniel has commented to me that making the snapshot commands synchronous >>> for 0.13 wouldn't be that bad, what do you think? >>> >> The thought is that changing a command from synchronous to asynchronous is >> not an ABI incompatible change. An existing app simply won't know to take >> advantage of the new possibilities that async commands offer. >> > > It's not QMP that's the major issue with savevm. The major issue is > actually the way snapshots are saved in qcow2. You need to know the > size of the snapshot prior to creating the snapshot Huh, why this? Seems I still haven't understood all of qcow2 then... I always thought that there's just a specific offset where VM state starts, but no explicit end. Kevin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
