Hello, Is anyone working on block filters? If so, can you please tell me what the current progress is? I am referring to item "BlockFilter and dynamic reconfiguration of the BDS graph" on the to-do list [1].
Thanks for your time, Kaitlin Farr Software Engineer JHU/APL 1. http://qemu-project.org/Features/Block/Todo#BlockFilter_and_dynamic_reconfiguration_of_the_BDS_graph ________________________________________ From: Benoît Canet <benoit.ca...@nodalink.com> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 11:51 AM To: Farr, Kaitlin M. Cc: QEMU Dev (qemu-devel@nongnu.org); benoit.ca...@nodalink.com; stefa...@redhat.com; kw...@redhat.com; arm...@redhat.com Subject: Re: Block filter status On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 04:32:19PM +0000, Farr, Kaitlin M. wrote: > Hello all, > > Hello, 1) I once wanted to write block filters. 2) I am not a QEMU contributor anymore. 3) If you need block filters you also need to write them. Best regards Benoît > I would like to inquire about the status of block filters in QEMU. I work for > a team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and we > would be interested in a QEMU encryption feature, such as described in the > to-do list [1]. However, it seems the method described relies on block > filters, also on the to-do list. Does development work on block filters live > in a public branch somewhere? If so, I'd greatly appreciate it if someone > could point me to it so that I could take a look. Does anyone know of an > estimated date for when the block filters might be in state so that one could > write an encryption filter? Additionally, does anyone have an estimate for > time and amount of effort if might take to implement such an encryption > filter? If someone could assist me in planning out what steps need to be > taken to support encryption, I would appreciate it. > > Thanks, > > Kaitlin Farr > > Software engineer > > JHU/APL > > > 1. > http://qemu-project.org/Features/Block/Todo#New_design_for_better_encryption_support_.5Barmbru.5D >
