On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 09:52:30AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > so it might be nicer to > make a change to the protocol document that instead permits current > nbdkit behavior and puts the burden on clients to interoperate when > NBD_OPT_LIST is not supported.
The purpose of nbdkit is to be a server for qemu, to be a replacement for qemu-nbd in cases where proprietary code cannot be combined with qemu for copyright/licensing/legal reasons. So we aim to make sure we can interoperate with qemu. No need to change any standards for nbdkit! Clarifying standards documents is OK though. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW