Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v7 00/11] Support streaming to an intermediate layer

2015-06-19 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Thu 18 Jun 2015 02:36:13 PM CEST, Eric Blake wrote: [Detecting support for intermediate block streaming] One possibility is to try to stream to an intermediate node and see if it fails. Example: in a chain like [A] - [B] - [C], streaming to [B] using [A] as the 'base' parameter is a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v7 00/11] Support streaming to an intermediate layer

2015-06-18 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Thu 18 Jun 2015 12:45:35 PM CEST, Kevin Wolf wrote: I believe our conclusion from an earlier version of the series was that we need QAPI introspection so that libvirt can detect the presence of the feature. The initial version of this series had an extra 'top' parameter to decide what

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v7 00/11] Support streaming to an intermediate layer

2015-06-18 Thread Eric Blake
[adding libvirt, to make sure I capture a design idea] On 06/18/2015 06:36 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 06/18/2015 06:07 AM, Alberto Garcia wrote: On Thu 18 Jun 2015 01:47:20 PM CEST, Kevin Wolf wrote: I believe our conclusion from an earlier version of the series was that we need QAPI

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v7 00/11] Support streaming to an intermediate layer

2015-06-18 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 18.06.2015 um 13:41 hat Alberto Garcia geschrieben: On Thu 18 Jun 2015 12:45:35 PM CEST, Kevin Wolf wrote: I believe our conclusion from an earlier version of the series was that we need QAPI introspection so that libvirt can detect the presence of the feature. The initial version

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v7 00/11] Support streaming to an intermediate layer

2015-06-18 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Thu 18 Jun 2015 01:47:20 PM CEST, Kevin Wolf wrote: I believe our conclusion from an earlier version of the series was that we need QAPI introspection so that libvirt can detect the presence of the feature. The initial version of this series had an extra 'top' parameter to decide

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v7 00/11] Support streaming to an intermediate layer

2015-06-18 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/18/2015 06:07 AM, Alberto Garcia wrote: On Thu 18 Jun 2015 01:47:20 PM CEST, Kevin Wolf wrote: I believe our conclusion from an earlier version of the series was that we need QAPI introspection so that libvirt can detect the presence of the feature. Detecting the presence of a feature

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v7 00/11] Support streaming to an intermediate layer

2015-06-18 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 16.06.2015 um 10:51 hat Alberto Garcia geschrieben: Ping... https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-05/msg02580.html I believe our conclusion from an earlier version of the series was that we need QAPI introspection so that libvirt can detect the presence of the feature. Markus