On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> writes: > >> On 02/07/2012 07:50 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Kevin Wolf<kw...@redhat.com> wrote: >>>> Am 07.02.2012 11:29, schrieb Ori Mamluk: >>>>> Repagent is a new module that allows an external replication system to >>>>> replicate a volume of a Qemu VM. >>> >>> I recently joked with Kevin that QEMU is on its way to reimplementing >>> the Linux block and device-mapper layers. Now we have drbd, thanks! >>> :P >> >> I don't think it's a joke. Do we really want to get into this space? >> Why not just use drbd? >> >> If it's because we want to also work with image formats, perhaps we >> should export our image format code as a shared library and let drbd >> link against it. > > I want to be able to "mount foo.qcow2 /mnt".
That would only be possible if foo.qcow2 is a flat file system without a partition table or logical volumes. But I completely agree that working with image files on the host should be as easy as mount. Stefan
