Max: Did you have in mind something like this? v2: - Fix qemu-img from now choking when it gets a partial response.
________________________________________________________________________________ For convenience, this branch is available at: https://github.com/jnsnow/qemu.git branch block-allow-partial-query https://github.com/jnsnow/qemu/tree/block-allow-partial-query This version is tagged block-allow-partial-query-v2: https://github.com/jnsnow/qemu/releases/tag/block-allow-partial-query-v2 John Snow (4): block/qapi: do not redundantly print "actual path" block/qapi: always report full_backing_filename qemu-img: abort when full_backing_filename not present block/qapi: allow best-effort query block/qapi.c | 18 +++++++++++------- qemu-img.c | 5 ++++- tests/qemu-iotests/043.out | 2 ++ tests/qemu-iotests/110.out | 5 ++++- 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) -- 2.4.3