This series was asked by Kevin. It sit on top of the snapshot fix patch and max openv2 series.
I have done the following tests. check qemu-iotest ok snapshot blockbackend by id ok open quorum by node-name reference and id reference ok Error messages seems ok Benoît Canet (2): block: Relax bdrv_lookup_bs constraints. block: Open by reference will try device then node_name. block.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++----------------- blockdev.c | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.2