Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: mkdir memory_backing_dir on startup

2017-05-31 Thread Peter Krempa
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 15:17:24 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: > On 05/31/2017 03:00 PM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > On Sat, 2017-05-27 at 12:45 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: > >> In 48d9e6cdcc and friends we've allowed users to back guest > >> memory by a file inside the host. And in order to

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: mkdir memory_backing_dir on startup

2017-05-31 Thread Michal Privoznik
On 05/31/2017 03:00 PM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Sat, 2017-05-27 at 12:45 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: >> In 48d9e6cdcc and friends we've allowed users to back guest >> memory by a file inside the host. And in order to keep things >> manageable the memory_backing_dir variable was introduced

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: mkdir memory_backing_dir on startup

2017-05-31 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Sat, 2017-05-27 at 12:45 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: > In 48d9e6cdcc and friends we've allowed users to back guest > memory by a file inside the host. And in order to keep things > manageable the memory_backing_dir variable was introduced to > qemu.conf to specify the directory where the

[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: mkdir memory_backing_dir on startup

2017-05-27 Thread Michal Privoznik
In 48d9e6cdcc and friends we've allowed users to back guest memory by a file inside the host. And in order to keep things manageable the memory_backing_dir variable was introduced to qemu.conf to specify the directory where the files are kept. However, libvirt's policy is that directories are