Modern way is using blockdev-add + blockdev-backup, which provides a
lot more control on how target is opened.
As example of drive-backup problems consider the following:
User of drive-backup expects that target will be opened in the same
cache and aio mode as source. Corresponding logic is in
drive_backup_prepare(), where we take bs->open_flags of source.
It works rather bad if source was added by blockdev-add. Assume source
is qcow2 image. On blockdev-add we should specify aio and cache options
for file child of qcow2 node. What happens next:
drive_backup_prepare() looks at bs->open_flags of qcow2 source node.
But there no BDRV_O_NOCAHE neither BDRV_O_NATIVE_AIO: BDRV_O_NOCAHE is
places in bs->file->bs->open_flags, and BDRV_O_NATIVE_AIO is nowhere,
as file-posix parse options and simply set s->use_linux_aio.
The documentation is updated in a minimal way, so that drive-backup is
noted only as a deprecated command, and blockdev-backup used in most of
places.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Simple unions predate flat unions. Having both complicates the QAPI
schema language and the QAPI generator. We haven't been using simple
unions in new code for a long time, because they are less flexible and
somewhat awkward on the wire.
To prepare for their removal, convert simple union TransactionAction
to an equivalent flat one. Adds some boilerplate to the schema, which
is a bit ugly, but a lot easier to maintain than the simple union
feature.
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210917143134.412106-11-armbru@redhat.com>
It was deprecated in commit e1c4269763, v5.2.0. See that commit
message for rationale.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210501075747.3293186-1-armbru@redhat.com>
ACKed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
The various schemas included in QEMU use a JSON-based format which
is, however, strictly speaking not valid JSON.
As a consequence, when vim tries to apply syntax highlight rules
for JSON (as guessed from the file name), the result is an unreadable
mess which mostly consist of red markers pointing out supposed errors
in, well, pretty much everything.
Using Python syntax highlighting produces much better results, and
in fact these files already start with specially-formatted comments
that instruct Emacs to process them as if they were Python files.
This commit adds the equivalent special comments for vim.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200729185024.121766-1-abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
This adds and parses the --monitor option, so that a QMP monitor can be
used in the storage daemon. The monitor offers commands defined in the
QAPI schema at storage-daemon/qapi/qapi-schema.json.
The --monitor options currently allows to create multiple monitors with
the same ID. This part of the interface is considered unstable. We will
reject such configurations as soon as we have a design for the monitor
subsystem to perform these checks. (In the system emulator, we depend on
QemuOpts rejecting duplicate IDs.)
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200224143008.13362-21-kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The current doc generation doesn't care much about indentation levels,
but we would like to switch to an rST format, and rST does care about
indentation.
Make the doc comments more strongly consistent about indentation
for multiline constructs like:
@arg: description line 1
description line 2
Returns: line one
line 2
so that there is always exactly one space after the colon, and
subsequent lines align with the first.
This commit is a purely whitespace change, and it does not alter the
generated .texi files (because the texi generation code strips away
all the extra whitespace). This does mean that we end up with some
over-length lines.
Note that when the documentation for an argument fits on a single
line like this:
@arg: one line only
then stray extra spaces after the ':' don't affect the rST output, so
I have not attempted to methodically fix them, though the preference
is a single space here too.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20200213175647.17628-10-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Commit message tweaked]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
It is used to do transactional movement of the bitmap (which is
possible in conjunction with merge command). Transactional bitmap
movement is needed in scenarios with external snapshot, when we don't
want to leave copy of the bitmap in the base image.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190708220502.12977-3-jsnow@redhat.com
[Edited "since" version to 4.2 --js]
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
The 'x' prefix was added because I was uncertain of the direction we'd
take for the libvirt API. With the general approach solidified, I feel
comfortable committing to this API for 4.0.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <20181221093529.23855-5-jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
New action is like clean action: do the whole thing in .prepare and
undo in .abort. This behavior for bitmap-changing actions is needed
because backup job actions use bitmap in .prepare.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
