Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v3 5/5] blockcommit: turn on active commit

2014-06-19 Thread Peter Krempa
On 06/19/14 01:22, Eric Blake wrote: With this in place, I can (finally!) now do: virsh blockcommit $dom vda --shallow --verbose --pivot and watch qemu shorten the backing chain by one, followed by libvirt automatically updating the dumpxml output, effectively undoing the work of virsh

[libvirt] [PATCH v3 5/5] blockcommit: turn on active commit

2014-06-18 Thread Eric Blake
With this in place, I can (finally!) now do: virsh blockcommit $dom vda --shallow --verbose --pivot and watch qemu shorten the backing chain by one, followed by libvirt automatically updating the dumpxml output, effectively undoing the work of virsh snapshot-commit --no-metadata --disk-only.

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v3 5/5] blockcommit: turn on active commit

2014-06-12 Thread Peter Krempa
On 06/11/14 18:27, Eric Blake wrote: With this in place, I can (finally!) now do: virsh blockcommit $dom vda --shallow --wait --verbose --pivot and watch qemu shorten the backing chain by one, followed by libvirt automatically updating the dumpxml output, effectively undoing the work of

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v3 5/5] blockcommit: turn on active commit

2014-06-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/12/2014 06:01 AM, Peter Krempa wrote: On 06/11/14 18:27, Eric Blake wrote: With this in place, I can (finally!) now do: virsh blockcommit $dom vda --shallow --wait --verbose --pivot -/* FIXME: qemu 2.0 supports active commit, but as a two-stage - * process; qemu 2.1 is

[libvirt] [PATCH v3 5/5] blockcommit: turn on active commit

2014-06-11 Thread Eric Blake
With this in place, I can (finally!) now do: virsh blockcommit $dom vda --shallow --wait --verbose --pivot and watch qemu shorten the backing chain by one, followed by libvirt automatically updating the dumpxml output, effectively undoing the work of virsh snapshot-commit --no-metadata