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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] tcmu-runner and QEMU
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To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt_Canet?= <benoit.canet@irqsave.net>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 09/04/2014 06:24 AM, Beno=EEt Canet wrote:
>> There are other commands for snapshots and backup which are issued via
>> QMP.
>>
>> It might even make sense to make the tcmu interface available at
>> run-time in QEMU like the run-time NBD server.  This allows you to get
>> at read-only point-in-time snapshots while the guest is accessing the
>> disk.  See the nbd-server-start command in qapi/block.json.
>>
>> Stefan
>
> Andy: ping
>
> I hope we didn't scaried you with our monster block backend and it's
> associated QMP socket ;)

Hi Beno=EEt,

No, I've gone off to work on a initial proof-of-concept implementation=20
of a qemu-lio-tcmu.so module, hopefully it'll be ready to look at=20
shortly and then we can shoot arrows at it. :)

But in the meantime, do you have a use case or user story for the QMP=20
support that might help me understand better how it might all fit togethe=
r?

Regards -- Andy