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From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	dlaor@redhat.com, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefan.hajnoczi@uk.ibm.com>,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>,
	Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>,
	Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] live snapshot, live merge, live block migration
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 14:56:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DD66510.8070805@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimBj4ee+Q-nTchXw=+J5YxuLSFv8Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 05/20/11 14:49, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 05/20/11 14:19, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>> I'm interested in what the API for snapshots would look like.
>>
>> I presume you're talking external snapshots here? The API is really what
>> should be defined by libvirt, so you get a unified API that can work
>> both on QEMU level snapshots as well as enterprise storage, host file
>> system snapshots etc.
> 
> Thanks for the pointers on external snapshots using image files.  I'm
> really thinking about the libvirt API.
> 
> Basically I'm not sure we'll implement the right things if we don't
> think through the API that the user sees first.

Right, I agree. There's a lot of variables there, and they are not
necessarily easy to map into a single namespace. I am not sure it should
be done either......

Cheers,
Jes

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-20 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-09 13:40 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] live snapshot, live merge, live block migration Dor Laor
2011-05-09 15:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-05-09 20:58   ` Dor Laor
2011-05-12 14:18   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-05-12 15:37   ` Jes Sorensen
2011-05-10 14:13 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-05-12 15:33 ` Jes Sorensen
2011-05-13  3:16   ` Jagane Sundar
2011-05-15 21:14     ` Dor Laor
2011-05-15 21:38       ` Jagane Sundar
2011-05-15 21:38         ` Jagane Sundar
2011-05-16  7:53         ` Dor Laor
2011-05-16  7:53           ` [Qemu-devel] " Dor Laor
2011-05-16  8:23           ` Jagane Sundar
2011-05-16  8:23             ` [Qemu-devel] " Jagane Sundar
2011-05-17 22:53             ` Dor Laor
2011-05-17 22:53               ` [Qemu-devel] " Dor Laor
2011-05-18 15:49               ` Jagane Sundar
2011-05-18 15:49                 ` Jagane Sundar
2011-05-20 12:19 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-05-20 12:39   ` Jes Sorensen
2011-05-20 12:49     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-05-20 12:56       ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2011-05-22  9:52   ` Dor Laor
2011-05-23 13:02     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-05-27 16:46       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-05-27 17:16         ` Jagane Sundar
2011-05-23  5:42   ` Jagane Sundar

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