Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/4] block: support passing 'backing': '' to 'blockdev-add'

2015-09-18 Thread Max Reitz
On 18.09.2015 15:16, Alberto Garcia wrote: > Passing an empty string allows opening an image but not its backing > file. This was already described in the API documentation, only the > implementation was missing. > > This is useful for creating snapshots using images opened with > blockdev-add, si

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/4] block: support passing 'backing': '' to 'blockdev-add'

2015-09-18 Thread Alberto Garcia
Passing an empty string allows opening an image but not its backing file. This was already described in the API documentation, only the implementation was missing. This is useful for creating snapshots using images opened with blockdev-add, since they are not supposed to have a backing image befor