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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Live Block Migration using Mirroring
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:02:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jij4s0$2cb$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <453ad5e3-36eb-45bb-8ce0-91ed7611b5fc@zmail16.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>

Il 28/02/2012 18:46, Federico Simoncelli ha scritto:
> > > Thank you for getting this. Being able to have a bogus backing file
> > > was a bonus but it's not really required for the mirrored live block
> > > migration. We can add the support for switching the backing file in the
> > > drive-reopen part.
> > 
> > Wait, it's not really required for oVirt because it creates the
> > snapshot outside QEMU.  What about everyone else?
> 
> They'll have (as oVirt) two mirrored snapshot pointing at the same
> base. The only difference is that the image is created internally, but
> that's not hard.

Can you detail how you are switching the backing file in the
drive-reopen?  Either the BlockDriverState opened by blkmirror, or the
one opened at the end, will have to use the "wrong" backing_file.  How
do you arrange for that?

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-28 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-22 17:13 [Qemu-devel] Live Block Migration using Mirroring Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-22 17:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Add blkmirror block driver Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-23 16:14   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-02-23 16:18     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-02-23 16:20       ` Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-23 16:28         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-02-23 16:51           ` Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-23 16:18     ` Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-27  9:23     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-02-27 11:37       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-27 11:42         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-02-27 11:48           ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-27 13:09             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-02-27 13:47               ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-27 14:49                 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-02-27 14:59                   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-02-27 15:08                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-22 17:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] Update the " Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-23  7:18   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-23  9:44     ` Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-23  9:45       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-22 17:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Add nocreate option to snapshot_blkdev Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-23  7:19   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-23  7:38     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-23  9:39       ` Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-23  9:48         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-23 10:19           ` Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-23 11:30             ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-23 15:47 ` [Qemu-devel] Live Block Migration using Mirroring Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-02-23 16:10   ` Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-23 16:35 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-02-23 17:06   ` Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-24 11:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add blkmirror block driver Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-24 11:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-24 12:03   ` Kevin Wolf
2012-02-24 12:12     ` Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-24 13:11     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-24 17:04     ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-02-27 14:57     ` Markus Armbruster
2012-02-24 16:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2 v2] Add blkmirror block driver Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-24 17:02   ` Eric Blake
2012-02-24 17:15     ` Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-24 18:49     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-24 18:17   ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-02-27  9:17     ` Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-24 16:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-24 17:46   ` Eric Blake
2012-02-24 18:57     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-24 19:37       ` Eric Blake
2012-02-24 19:01   ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-02-24 19:40     ` Eric Blake
2012-02-24 20:26       ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-02-24 22:46         ` Eric Blake
2012-02-24 20:32     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-24 20:36       ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-02-24 21:05         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-24 22:30     ` Eric Blake
2012-02-25  6:47       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-27 11:29     ` Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-27 12:12       ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-02-27 12:49         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-27 13:06           ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-02-27 14:39             ` [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands) Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-27 14:46               ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-27 14:54                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-27 14:59                   ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-27 15:03                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-27 15:06                       ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-27 15:17                     ` Kevin Wolf
2012-02-27 15:24                       ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-27 16:51                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-27 16:58                           ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-27 17:06                             ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-27 16:33               ` Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-27 16:41                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-27 16:42                 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-27 16:50                   ` Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-27 16:53                     ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-27 16:54                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-27 16:59                         ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-27 17:37                   ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-02-28 15:47 ` [Qemu-devel] Live Block Migration using Mirroring Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-02-28 17:15   ` Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-28 17:36     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-28 17:46       ` Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-28 18:02         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-02-28 18:21           ` Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-28 17:26   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-29 12:28   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3] Add blkmirror block driver Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-29 13:02     ` Federico Simoncelli
2012-02-29 17:01   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv4] " Federico Simoncelli
2012-03-05 16:59 ` [Qemu-devel] Live Block Migration using Mirroring Marcelo Tosatti
2012-03-05 17:20   ` Eric Blake
2012-03-05 17:44     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-03-05 18:05       ` Paolo Bonzini

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