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Alberto Garcia 3c7d14b201 specs/qcow2: Clarify that compressed clusters have the COPIED bit reset
Compressed clusters are not supposed to have the COPIED bit set, but
this is not made explicit in the specs, so let's document it.

Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Message-id: 74552e1d6e858d3159cb0c0e188e80bc9248e337.1523376013.git.berto@igalia.com
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2018-05-15 16:15:21 +02:00
Alberto Garcia 156b46ded3 specs/qcow2: Fix documentation of the compressed cluster descriptor
This patch fixes several mistakes in the documentation of the
compressed cluster descriptor:

1) the documentation claims that the cluster descriptor contains the
   number of sectors used to store the compressed data, but what it
   actually contains is the number of sectors *minus one* or, in other
   words, the number of additional sectors after the first one.

2) the width of the fields is incorrectly specified. The number of bits
   used by each field is

      x = 62 - (cluster_bits - 8)   for the offset field
      y = (cluster_bits - 8)        for the size field

   So the offset field's location is [0, x-1], not [0, x] as stated.

3) the size field does not contain the size of the compressed data,
   but rather the number of sectors where that data is stored. The
   compressed data starts at the exact point specified in the offset
   field and ends when there's enough data to produce a cluster of
   decompressed data. Both points can be in the middle of a sector,
   allowing several compressed clusters to be stored next to one
   another, sharing sectors if necessary.

Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2018-03-02 18:39:07 +01:00
Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy b348c262cc specs/qcow2: do not use wording 'bitmap header'
A bitmap directory entry is sometimes called a 'bitmap header'. This
patch leaves only one name - 'bitmap directory entry'. The name 'bitmap
header' creates misunderstandings with 'qcow2 header' and 'qcow2 bitmap
header extension' (which is extension of qcow2 header)

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170628120530.31251-3-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2017-07-11 17:44:57 +02:00
Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy b5d1f15488 specs/qcow2: fix bitmap granularity qemu-specific note
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170628120530.31251-2-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2017-07-11 17:44:57 +02:00
Daniel P. Berrange 7674b5754e qcow2: extend specification to cover LUKS encryption
Update the qcow2 specification to describe how the LUKS header is
placed inside a qcow2 file, when using LUKS encryption for the
qcow2 payload instead of the legacy AES-CBC encryption

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170623162419.26068-13-berrange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2017-07-11 17:44:56 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini d59157ea05 docs: create interop/ subdirectory
This is for the future interoperability & management guide.  It includes
the QAPI docs, including the automatically generated ones, other socket
protocols (vhost-user, VNC), and the qcow2 file format.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-06-15 11:18:39 +02:00