Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] qemu-nbd: Add --bitmap=NAME option

2019-01-09 Thread Eric Blake
On 1/8/19 10:14 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > Having to fire up qemu, then use QMP commands for nbd-server-start > and nbd-server-add, just to expose a persistent dirty bitmap, is > rather tedious. Make it possible to expose a dirty bitmap using > just qemu-nbd (of course, for now this only works when q

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] qemu-nbd: Add --bitmap=NAME option

2019-01-08 Thread Eric Blake
Having to fire up qemu, then use QMP commands for nbd-server-start and nbd-server-add, just to expose a persistent dirty bitmap, is rather tedious. Make it possible to expose a dirty bitmap using just qemu-nbd (of course, for now this only works when qemu-nbd is visiting a BDS formatted as qcow2).