From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
To: Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@gmail.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, bharatlkmlkvm@gmail.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] a standone-alone tool to directly share disk image file via vhost-user protocol
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:04:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200116140429.GJ163546@stefanha-x1.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200114140620.10385-4-coiby.xu@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 10:06:18PM +0800, Coiby Xu wrote:
> vhost-user-blk can have played as vhost-user backend but it only supports raw file and don't support VIRTIO_BLK_T_DISCARD and VIRTIO_BLK_T_WRITE_ZEROES operations on raw file (ioctl(fd, BLKDISCARD) is only valid for real block device).
>
> Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@gmail.com>
> ---
> qemu-vu.c | 264 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 264 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 qemu-vu.c
Kevin has been working on qemu-storage-daemon, a tool for running NBD
exports, block jobs, and other storage features that are not part of a
guest. I think qemu-storage-daemon would be the appropriate tool for
running vhost-user-blk servers. A dedicated binary is not necessary.
Stefan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-16 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-14 14:06 [PATCH v2 0/5] vhost-user block device backend implementation Coiby Xu
2020-01-14 14:06 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] vhost-user block device backend Coiby Xu
2020-01-16 13:51 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-01-16 14:20 ` Kevin Wolf
2020-02-14 3:07 ` Coiby Xu
2020-01-16 13:56 ` Kevin Wolf
2020-02-20 7:04 ` Coiby Xu
2020-02-20 9:30 ` Coiby Xu
2020-01-14 14:06 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] extend libvhost to support IOThread Coiby Xu
2020-01-14 14:06 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] a standone-alone tool to directly share disk image file via vhost-user protocol Coiby Xu
2020-01-16 14:04 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2020-01-17 8:12 ` Coiby Xu
2020-01-17 10:11 ` Kevin Wolf
2020-01-31 16:42 ` Coiby Xu
2020-02-02 9:33 ` Kevin Wolf
2020-02-13 1:00 ` Coiby Xu
2020-01-14 14:06 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] new qTest case for the vhost-user-blk device backend Coiby Xu
2020-01-14 14:06 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] building configuration files changes Coiby Xu
2020-01-16 11:07 ` Kevin Wolf
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