Add an option to qmp_blockdev_change_medium() which allows changing the
read-only status of the block device whose medium is changed.
Some drives do not have a inherently fixed read-only status; for
instance, floppy disks can be set read-only or writable independently of
the drive. Some users may find it useful to be able to therefore change
the read-only status of a block device when changing the medium.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Introduce a new QMP command 'blockdev-change-medium' which is intended
to replace the 'change' command for block devices. The existing function
qmp_change_blockdev() is accordingly renamed to
qmp_blockdev_change_medium().
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
And a helper function for that, which directly takes a pointer to the
BDS to be inserted instead of its node-name (which will be used for
implementing 'change' using blockdev-insert-medium).
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
If the "id" field is missing from the options given to blockdev-add,
just omit the BlockBackend and create the BlockDriverState tree alone.
However, if "id" is missing, "node-name" must be specified; otherwise,
the BDS tree would no longer be accessible.
Many BDS options which are not parsed by bdrv_open() (like caching)
cannot be specified for these BB-less BDS trees yet. A future patch will
remove this limitation.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
It has been deprecated as of 2.3, so we can now remove it.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This adds a new 'cache-clean-interval' option that cleans all qcow2
cache entries that haven't been used in a certain interval, given in
seconds.
This allows setting a large L2 cache size so it can handle scenarios
with lots of I/O and at the same time use little memory during periods
of inactivity.
This feature currently relies on MADV_DONTNEED to free that memory, so
it is not useful in systems that don't follow that behavior.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: a70d12da60433df9360ada648b3f34b8f6f354ce.1438690126.git.berto@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
If specified as "true", it allows discarding on target sectors where source is
not allocated.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
If we wish to make differential backups a feature that's easy to access,
it might be pertinent to rename the "dirty-bitmap" mode to "incremental"
to make it clear what /type/ of backup the dirty-bitmap is helping us
perform.
This is an API breaking change, but 2.4 has not yet gone live,
so we have this flexibility.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1433463642-21840-2-git-send-email-jsnow@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/stefanha/tags/block-pull-request' into staging
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* remotes/stefanha/tags/block-pull-request:
virito-blk: drop duplicate check
qemu-iotests: fix 051.out after qdev error message change
iov: don't touch iov in iov_send_recv()
raw-posix: Introduce hdev_is_sg()
raw-posix: Use DPRINTF for DEBUG_FLOPPY
raw-posix: DPRINTF instead of DEBUG_BLOCK_PRINT
Fix migration in case of scsi-generic
block: Use bdrv_is_sg() everywhere
nvme: Fix memleak in nvme_dma_read_prp
vvfat: add a label option
util/hbitmap: Add an API to reset all set bits in hbitmap
virtio-blk: Use blk_drain() to drain IO requests
block-backend: Introduce blk_drain()
throttle: Check current timers before updating any_timer_armed[]
block: Let bdrv_drain_all() to call aio_poll() for each AioContext
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Until now the vvfat volume label was hardcoded to be
"QEMU VVFAT", now you can pass a file.label=labelname option
to the -drive to change it.
The FAT structure defines the volume label to be limited to
11 bytes and is filled up spaces when shorter than that. The
trailing spaces however aren't exposed to the user by
operating systems.
[Added missing comment '#' characters in block-core.json to fix build
errors.
--Stefan]
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller@proxmox.com>
Message-id: 1434706529-13895-2-git-send-email-w.bumiller@proxmox.com
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The throttle group support use a cooperative round robin scheduling
algorithm.
The principles of the algorithm are simple:
- Each BDS of the group is used as a token in a circular way.
- The active BDS computes if a wait must be done and arms the right
timer.
- If a wait must be done the token timer will be armed so the token
will become the next active BDS.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: f0082a86f3ac01c46170f7eafe2101a92e8fde39.1433779731.git.berto@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Bitmaps can be in a handful of different states with potentially
more to come as we tool around with migration and persistence patches.
Management applications may need to know why certain bitmaps are
unavailable for various commands, e.g. busy in another operation,
busy being migrated, etc.
Right now, all we offer is BlockDirtyInfo's boolean member 'frozen'.
Instead of adding more booleans, replace it by an enumeration member
'status' with values 'active' and 'frozen'. Then add new value
'disabled'.
Incompatible change. Fine because the changed part hasn't been
released so far.
Suggested-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
[Commit message tweaked]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Label the "size" and "offset" fields in BLOCK_IMAGE_CORRUPTED as
optional, and clarify that the latter refers to the host's offset into
the image.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Referring to "type" as both a meta-type (built-in, enum, union,
alternate, or struct) and a specific type (the name that the
schema uses for declaring structs) is confusing. Do the bulk of
the conversion to "struct" in qapi schema, with a fairly
mechanical:
for f in `find -name '*.json'; do sed -i "s/'type'/'struct'/"; done
followed by manually filtering out the places where we have a
'type' embedded in 'data'. Then tweak a couple of tests whose
output changes slightly due to longer lines.
I also verified that the generated files for QMP and QGA (such
as qmp-commands.h) are the same before and after, as assurance
that I didn't leave in any accidental member name changes.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Previous patches have led up to the point where I create the
new meta-type "'alternate':'Foo'". See the previous patches
for documentation; I intentionally split as much work into
earlier patches to minimize the size of this patch, but a lot
of it is churn due to testsuite fallout after updating to the
new type.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Add the "frozen" status booleans, to inform clients
when a bitmap is occupied doing a task.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1429314609-29776-13-git-send-email-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Add bdrv_clear_dirty_bitmap and a matching QMP command,
qmp_block_dirty_bitmap_clear that enables a user to reset
the bitmap attached to a drive.
This allows us to reset a bitmap in the event of a full
drive backup.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1429314609-29776-12-git-send-email-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
For "dirty-bitmap" sync mode, the block job will iterate through the
given dirty bitmap to decide if a sector needs backup (backup all the
dirty clusters and skip clean ones), just as allocation conditions of
"top" sync mode.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1429314609-29776-11-git-send-email-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
A bitmap successor is an anonymous BdrvDirtyBitmap that is intended to
be created just prior to a sensitive operation (e.g. Incremental Backup)
that can either succeed or fail, but during the course of which we still
want a bitmap tracking writes.
On creating a successor, we "freeze" the parent bitmap which prevents
its deletion, enabling, anonymization, or creating a bitmap with the
same name.
On success, the parent bitmap can "abdicate" responsibility to the
successor, which will inherit its name. The successor will have been
tracking writes during the course of the backup operation. The parent
will be safely deleted.
On failure, we can "reclaim" the successor from the parent, unifying
them such that the resulting bitmap describes all writes occurring since
the last successful backup, for instance. Reclamation will thaw the
parent, but not explicitly re-enable it.
BdrvDirtyBitmap operations that target a single bitmap are protected
by assertions that the bitmap is not frozen and/or disabled.
BdrvDirtyBitmap operations that target a group of bitmaps, such as
bdrv_{set,reset}_dirty will ignore frozen/disabled drives with a
conditional instead.
Internal functions that enable/disable dirty bitmaps have assertions
added to them to prevent modifying frozen bitmaps.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1429314609-29776-10-git-send-email-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The new command pair is added to manage a user created dirty bitmap. The
dirty bitmap's name is mandatory and must be unique for the same device,
but different devices can have bitmaps with the same names.
The granularity is an optional field. If it is not specified, we will
choose a default granularity based on the cluster size if available,
clamped to between 4K and 64K to mirror how the 'mirror' code was
already choosing granularity. If we do not have cluster size info
available, we choose 64K. This code has been factored out into a helper
shared with block/mirror.
This patch also introduces the 'block_dirty_bitmap_lookup' helper,
which takes a device name and a dirty bitmap name and validates the
lookup, returning NULL and setting errp if there is a problem with
either field. This helper will be re-used in future patches in this
series.
The types added to block-core.json will be re-used in future patches
in this series, see:
'qapi: Add transaction support to block-dirty-bitmap-{add, enable, disable}'
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1429314609-29776-5-git-send-email-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
We treat this field with a variety of different types everywhere
in the code. Now it's just uint32_t.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1429314609-29776-4-git-send-email-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This field will be set for user created dirty bitmap. Also pass in an
error pointer to bdrv_create_dirty_bitmap, so when a name is already
taken on this BDS, it can report an error message. This is not global
check, two BDSes can have dirty bitmap with a common name.
Implemented bdrv_find_dirty_bitmap to find a dirty bitmap by name, will
be used later when other QMP commands want to reference dirty bitmap by
name.
Add bdrv_dirty_bitmap_make_anon. This unsets the name of dirty bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1429314609-29776-3-git-send-email-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Since this event can occur in nodes that cannot have a device name
associated, include also a field with the node name.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 147cec5b3594f4bec0cb41c98afe5fcbfb67567c.1428485266.git.berto@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Aio context switch should just work because the requests will be
drained, so the scheduled timer(s) on the old context will be freed.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1427852740-24315-2-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1426858337-21423-1-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Error classes are a leftover from the days of "rich" error objects.
New code should always use ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR. Commit
b7b9d39..7c6a4ab added uses of ERROR_CLASS_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND. Replace
them.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Raise your hand if you have a physical floppy drive in a computer
you've powered on in 2015. Okay, I see we got a few weirdos in the
audience. That's okay, weirdos are welcome here.
Kidding aside, media change detection doesn't fully work, isn't going
to be fixed, and floppy passthrough just isn't earning its keep
anymore.
Deprecate block driver host_floppy now, so we can drop it after a
grace period.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Error classes are a leftover from the days of "rich" error objects.
New code should always use ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR. Commit e246211
added a use of ERROR_CLASS_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND. Replace it.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Add the bit width of every refcount entry to the format-specific
information.
In contrast to lazy_refcounts and the corrupt flag, this should be
always emitted, even for compat=0.10 although it does not support any
refcount width other than 16 bits. This is because if a boolean is
optional, one normally assumes it to be false when omitted; but if an
integer is not specified, it is rather difficult to guess its value.
This new field breaks some test outputs, fix them.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Managing applications, like oVirt (http://www.ovirt.org), make extensive
use of thin-provisioned disk images.
To let the guest run smoothly and be not unnecessarily paused, oVirt sets
a disk usage threshold (so called 'high water mark') based on the occupation
of the device, and automatically extends the image once the threshold
is reached or exceeded.
In order to detect the crossing of the threshold, oVirt has no choice but
aggressively polling the QEMU monitor using the query-blockstats command.
This lead to unnecessary system load, and is made even worse under scale:
deployments with hundreds of VMs are no longer rare.
To fix this, this patch adds:
* A new monitor command `block-set-write-threshold', to set a mark for
a given block device.
* A new event `BLOCK_WRITE_THRESHOLD', to report if a block device
usage exceeds the threshold.
* A new `write_threshold' field into the `BlockDeviceInfo' structure,
to report the configured threshold.
This will allow the managing application to use smarter and more
efficient monitoring, greatly reducing the need of polling.
[Updated qemu-iotests 067 output to add the new 'write_threshold'
property. --Stefan]
[Changed g_assert_false() to !g_assert() to fix the build on older glib
versions. --Kevin]
Signed-off-by: Francesco Romani <fromani@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1421068273-692-1-git-send-email-fromani@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Similar to drive-backup, but this command uses a device id as target
instead of creating/opening an image file.
Also add blocker on target bs, since the target is also a named device
now.
Add check and report error for bs == target which became possible but is
an illegal case with introduction of blockdev-backup.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1418899027-8445-3-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
This bool option will allow query all the node names. It iterates all
the BDSes that are assigned a name, also in this case don't query up the
backing chain.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Node name is a better identifier of BDS.
We will want to query statistics of a BDS node buried in the BDS graph,
so reporting the node's name if there is one will do the trick.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 000c4dfff4.
The main reason for reverting this commit before the 2.2 release is that
it adds a QAPI interface that we don't want to keep: The 'nocow' flag
doesn't generally make sense for block nodes, but only for the raw-posix
driver. It should therefore be part of ImageInfoSpecific rather than
ImageInfo.
The commit contains more problems, but unlike the API stability issue
they wouldn't justify reverting it.
Conflicts:
block/qapi.c
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Several events were missing from the QAPI enum, add them.
Reported-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
When a block job signals readiness, this is currently reported only
through QMP. If qemu wants to use block jobs for internal tasks, there
needs to be another way to correctly detect when a block job may be
completed.
For this reason, introduce a bool "ready" which is set when the block
job may be completed.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1414159063-25977-6-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Just like lazy-refcounts, this field will be present iff the qcow2
compat level is 1.1 (or probably any future revision).
As expected, this breaks some tests due to the new field present in
qemu-img info output; so fix their output accordingly.
Suggested-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1412105489-7681-3-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This patch removes support for the cow file format.
Normally we do not break backwards compatibility but in this case there
is no impact and it is the most logical option. Extraordinary claims
require extraordinary evidence so I will show why removing the cow block
driver is the right thing to do.
The cow file format is the disk image format for Usermode Linux, a way
of running a Linux system in userspace. The performance of UML was
never great and it was hacky, but it enjoyed some popularity before
hardware virtualization support became mainstream.
QEMU's block/cow.c is supposed to read this image file format.
Unfortunately the file format was underspecified:
1. Earlier Linux versions used the MAXPATHLEN constant for the backing
filename field. The value of MAXPATHLEN can change, so Linux
switched to a 4096 literal but QEMU has a 1024 literal.
2. Padding was not used on the header struct (both in the Linux kernel
and in QEMU) so the struct layout varied across architectures. In
particular, i386 and x86_64 were different due to int64_t alignment
differences. Linux now uses __attribute__((packed)), QEMU does not.
Therefore:
1. QEMU cow images do not conform to the Linux cow image file format.
2. cow images cannot be shared between different host architectures.
This means QEMU cow images are useless and QEMU has not had bug reports
from users actually hitting these issues.
Let's get rid of this thing, it serves no purpose and no one will be
affected.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1410877464-20481-1-git-send-email-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
qcow2 supports more than four options by now, add the new options
(overlap check mode and metadata cache size)
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1408557576-14574-5-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Not every BLOCK_IMAGE_CORRUPTED event must be fatal; for example, when
reading from an image, they should generally not be. Nonetheless, even
an image only read from may of course be corrupted and this can be
detected during normal operation. In this case, a non-fatal event should
be emitted, but the image should not be marked corrupt (in accordance to
"fatal" set to false).
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1409926039-29044-2-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
