A block driver can provide a callback to report driver-specific
statistics.
file-posix driver now reports discard statistics
Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190923121737.83281-10-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190923121737.83281-3-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Make the stat fields definition slightly more readable.
Also reorder total_time_ns stats read-write-flush as done elsewhere.
Cosmetic change only.
Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20190923121737.83281-2-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
When preallocating an encrypted qcow2 image, it just lets the protocol
driver write data and then does not mark the clusters as zero.
Therefore, reading this image will yield effectively random data.
As such, we have not fulfilled the promise of always writing zeroes when
preallocating an image in a while. It seems that nobody has really
cared, so change the documentation to conform to qemu's actual behavior.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190711132935.13070-1-mreitz@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Let's add a possibility to query dirty-bitmaps not only on root nodes.
It is useful when dealing both with snapshots and incremental backups.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190717173937.18747-1-jsnow@redhat.com
[Added deprecation information. --js]
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
[Fixed spelling --js]
Accept bitmaps and sync policies for the other backup modes.
This allows us to do things like create a bitmap synced to a full backup
without a transaction, or start a resumable backup process.
Some combinations don't make sense, though:
- NEVER policy combined with any non-BITMAP mode doesn't do anything,
because the bitmap isn't used for input or output.
It's harmless, but is almost certainly never what the user wanted.
- sync=NONE is more questionable. It can't use on-success because this
job never completes with success anyway, and the resulting artifact
of 'always' is suspect: because we start with a full bitmap and only
copy out segments that get written to, the final output bitmap will
always be ... a fully set bitmap.
Maybe there's contexts in which bitmaps make sense for sync=none,
but not without more severe changes to the current job, and omitting
it here doesn't prevent us from adding it later.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190716000117.25219-11-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
This adds an "always" policy for bitmap synchronization. Regardless of if
the job succeeds or fails, the bitmap is *always* synchronized. This means
that for backups that fail part-way through, the bitmap retains a record of
which sectors need to be copied out to accomplish a new backup using the
old, partial result.
In effect, this allows us to "resume" a failed backup; however the new backup
will be from the new point in time, so it isn't a "resume" as much as it is
an "incremental retry." This can be useful in the case of extremely large
backups that fail considerably through the operation and we'd like to not waste
the work that was already performed.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190709232550.10724-13-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
This adds a "never" policy for bitmap synchronization. Regardless of if
the job succeeds or fails, we never update the bitmap. This can be used
to perform differential backups, or simply to avoid the job modifying a
bitmap.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190709232550.10724-7-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
We don't need or want a new sync mode for simple differences in
semantics. Create a new mode simply named "BITMAP" that is designed to
make use of the new Bitmap Sync Mode field.
Because the only bitmap sync mode is 'on-success', this adds no new
functionality to the backup job (yet). The old incremental backup mode
is maintained as a syntactic sugar for sync=bitmap, mode=on-success.
Add all of the plumbing necessary to support this new instruction.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190709232550.10724-6-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Depending on what a user is trying to accomplish, there might be a few
bitmap cleanup actions that occur when an operation is finished that
could be useful.
I am proposing three:
- NEVER: The bitmap is never synchronized against what was copied.
- ALWAYS: The bitmap is always synchronized, even on failures.
- ON-SUCCESS: The bitmap is synchronized only on success.
The existing incremental backup modes use 'on-success' semantics,
so add just that one for right now.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190709232550.10724-5-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
drive-backup and blockdev-backup have an awful lot of things in common
that are the same. Let's fix that.
I don't deduplicate 'target', because the semantics actually did change
between each structure. Leave that one alone so it can be documented
separately.
Where documentation was not identical, use the most up-to-date version.
For "speed", use Blockdev-Backup's version. For "sync", use
Drive-Backup's version.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
[Maintainer edit: modified commit message. --js]
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190709232550.10724-2-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reconnect will be implemented in the following commit, so for now,
in semantics below, disconnect itself is a "serious error".
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190618114328.55249-5-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
[eblake: slipped from 4.1 to 4.2]
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Commit cd219eb1e5 added the read-zeroes option for the null-co and
null-aio block driver, but forgot to add them to the QAPI schema.
Therefore, this option wasn't available in -blockdev and blockdev-add
until now.
Add the missing option in the schema to make it available there, too.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20190507203508.18026-6-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Together with @iotypes and @sector, this can be used to trap e.g. the
first read or write access to a certain sector without having to know
what happens internally in the block layer, i.e. which "real" events
happen right before such an access.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20190507203508.18026-5-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
This new error option allows users of blkdebug to inject errors only on
certain kinds of I/O operations. Users usually want to make a very
specific operation fail, not just any; but right now they simply hope
that the event that triggers the error injection is followed up with
that very operation. That may not be true, however, because the block
layer is changing (including blkdebug, which may increase the number of
types of I/O operations on which to inject errors).
The new option's default has been chosen to keep backwards
compatibility.
Note that similar to the internal representation, we could choose to
expose this option as a list of I/O types. But there is no practical
use for this, because as described above, users usually know exactly
which kind of operation they want to make fail, so there is no need to
specify multiple I/O types at once. In addition, exposing this option
as a list would require non-trivial changes to qemu_opts_absorb_qdict().
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20190507203508.18026-4-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
A snapshot is something that reflects the state of something at a
certain point in time. It does not change.
The file our snapshot commands create (or the node they install) is not
a snapshot, as it does change over time. It is an overlay. We cannot
do anything about the parameter names, but we can at least adjust the
descriptions to reflect that fact.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190603202236.1342-2-mreitz@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
In commit 23dece19da ('file-posix: Make auto-read-only dynamic') ,
auto-read-only=on changed its behaviour in file-posix for the 4.0
release. This change cannot be detected through the usual mechanisms
like schema introspection. Add a new feature flag to the schema to
allow libvirt to detect the presence of the new behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190606153803.5278-7-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Comment tweaked on Eric Blake's advice]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Add default and available values in the documentation block of
each block device or protocol that supports the 'preallocation'
parameter during the image creation.
Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190524075848.23781-2-sgarzare@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Add new optional parameter making possible to merge bitmaps from
different nodes. It is needed to maintain external snapshots during
incremental backup chain history.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190517152111.206494-2-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
If COW areas of the newly allocated clusters are zeroes on the backing
image, efficient bdrv_write_zeroes(flags=BDRV_REQ_NO_FALLBACK) can be
used on the whole cluster instead of writing explicit zero buffers later
in perform_cow().
iotest 060:
write to the discarded cluster does not trigger COW anymore.
Use a backing image instead.
Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20190516142749.81019-2-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
There no @device parameter, only the @id one.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
* Add 'drop-cache=on|off' option to file-posix.c. The default is on.
Disabling the option fixes a QEMU 3.0.0 performance regression when live
migrating on the same host with cache.direct=off.
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* Add 'drop-cache=on|off' option to file-posix.c. The default is on.
Disabling the option fixes a QEMU 3.0.0 performance regression when live
migrating on the same host with cache.direct=off.
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* remotes/stefanha/tags/block-pull-request:
file-posix: add drop-cache=on|off option
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Commit dd577a26ff ("block/file-posix:
implement bdrv_co_invalidate_cache() on Linux") introduced page cache
invalidation so that cache.direct=off live migration is safe on Linux.
The invalidation takes a significant amount of time when the file is
large and present in the page cache. Normally this is not the case for
cross-host live migration but it can happen when migrating between QEMU
processes on the same host.
On same-host migration we don't need to invalidate pages for correctness
anyway, so an option to skip page cache invalidation is useful. I
investigated optimizing invalidation and detecting same-host migration,
but both are hard to achieve so a user-visible option will suffice.
As a bonus this option means that the cache invalidation feature will
now be detectable by libvirt via QMP schema introspection.
Suggested-by: Neil Skrypuch <neil@tembosocial.com>
Tested-by: Neil Skrypuch <neil@tembosocial.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190307164941.3322-1-stefanha@redhat.com
Message-Id: <20190307164941.3322-1-stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This command allows reopening an arbitrary BlockDriverState with a
new set of options. Some options (e.g node-name) cannot be changed
and some block drivers don't allow reopening, but otherwise this
command is modelled after 'blockdev-add' and the state of the reopened
BlockDriverState should generally be the same as if it had just been
added by 'blockdev-add' with the same set of options.
One notable exception is the 'backing' option: 'x-blockdev-reopen'
requires that it is always present unless the BlockDriverState in
question doesn't have a current or default backing file.
This command allows reconfiguring the graph by using the appropriate
options to change the children of a node. At the moment it's possible
to change a backing file by setting the 'backing' option to the name
of the new node, but it should also be possible to add a similar
functionality to other block drivers (e.g. Quorum, blkverify).
Although the API is unlikely to change, this command is marked
experimental for the time being so there's room to see if the
semantics need changes.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Drop x- and x_ prefixes for latency histograms and update version to
4.0
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Even though the status field is deprecated, we still have to support
it for a few more releases. Since this is a very new kind of bitmap
state, it makes sense for it to have its own status field.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20190301191545.8728-3-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Add an inconsistent bit to dirty-bitmaps that allows us to report a bitmap as
persistent but potentially inconsistent, i.e. if we find bitmaps on a qcow2
that have been marked as "in use".
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: 20190301191545.8728-2-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
The current API allows us to report a single status, which we've defined as:
Frozen: has a successor, treated as qmp_locked, may or may not be enabled.
Locked: no successor, qmp_locked. may or may not be enabled.
Disabled: Not frozen or locked, disabled.
Active: Not frozen, locked, or disabled.
The problem is that both "Frozen" and "Locked" mean nearly the same thing,
and that both of them do not intuit whether they are recording guest writes
or not.
This patch deprecates that status field and introduces two orthogonal
properties instead to replace it.
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: 20190223000614.13894-2-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Provide an option to force QEMU to always keep the external data file
consistent as a standalone read-only raw image.
At the moment, this means making sure that write_zeroes requests are
forwarded to the data file instead of just updating the metadata, and
checking that no backing file is used.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Rather than requiring that the external data file node is passed
explicitly when creating the qcow2 node, store the filename in the
designated header extension during .bdrv_create and read it from there
as a default during .bdrv_open.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The meaning of the states has changed subtly over time,
this should bring the understanding more in-line with the
current, actual usages.
Reported-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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: 20190202011048.12343-1-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Since qemu currently doesn't flush persistent bitmaps to disk until
shutdown (which might be MUCH later), it's useful if 'query-block'
at least shows WHICH bitmaps will (eventually) make it to persistent
storage. Update affected iotests.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190204210512.27458-1-eblake@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
In the 'Format specific information' section of the 'qemu-img info'
command output, the supplemental information about existing QCOW2
bitmaps will be shown, such as a bitmap name, flags and granularity:
image: /vz/vmprivate/VM1/harddisk.hdd
file format: qcow2
virtual size: 64G (68719476736 bytes)
disk size: 3.0M
cluster_size: 1048576
Format specific information:
compat: 1.1
lazy refcounts: true
bitmaps:
[0]:
flags:
[0]: in-use
[1]: auto
name: back-up1
granularity: 65536
[1]:
flags:
[0]: in-use
[1]: auto
name: back-up2
granularity: 65536
refcount bits: 16
corrupt: false
Signed-off-by: Andrey Shinkevich <andrey.shinkevich@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <1549638368-530182-3-git-send-email-andrey.shinkevich@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Clarify that the number of extents provided in BlockdevCreateOptionsVmdk
must match the number of extents that will actually be used. Providing
more extents will result in an error now.
This requires adapting the test case to provide the right number of
extents.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
This makes VMDK support blockdev-create. The implementation reuses the
image creation code in vmdk_co_create_opts which now acceptes a callback
pointer to "retrieve" BlockBackend pointers from the caller. This way we
separate the logic between file/extent acquisition and initialization.
The QAPI command parameters are mostly the same as the old create_opts
except the dropped legacy @compat6 switch, which is redundant with
@hwversion.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Add a new command, returning block nodes (and their users) graph.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20181221170909.25584-2-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@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>
Especially outside of transactions, it is helpful to provide
all-or-nothing semantics for bitmap merges. This facilitates
the coalescing of multiple bitmaps into a single target for
the "checkpoint" interpretation when assembling bitmaps that
represent arbitrary points in time from component bitmaps.
This is an incompatible change from the preliminary version
of the API.
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: <20181221093529.23855-4-jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Add #if defined(CONFIG_REPLICATION) in generated code, and adjust the
code accordingly.
Made conditional:
* xen-set-replication, query-xen-replication-status,
xen-colo-do-checkpoint
Before the patch, we first register the commands unconditionally in
generated code (requires a stub), then conditionally unregister in
qmp_unregister_commands_hack().
Afterwards, we register only when CONFIG_REPLICATION. The command
fails exactly the same, with CommandNotFound.
Improvement, because now query-qmp-schema is accurate, and we're one
step closer to killing qmp_unregister_commands_hack().
* enum BlockdevDriver value "replication" in command blockdev-add
* BlockdevOptions variant @replication
and related structures.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20181213123724.4866-23-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Let's break the line before 'data'. While at it, improve a bit
indentation/spacing. (I removed some alignment which are not helping
much readability and become quickly inconsistent)
Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20181208111606.8505-26-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
If a management application builds the block graph node by node, the
protocol layer doesn't inherit its read-only option from the format
layer any more, so it must be set explicitly.
Backing files should work on read-only storage, but at the same time, a
block job like commit should be able to reopen them read-write if they
are on read-write storage. However, without option inheritance, reopen
only changes the read-only option for the root node (typically the
format layer), but not the protocol layer, so reopening fails (the
format layer wants to get write permissions, but the protocol layer is
still read-only).
A simple workaround for the problem in the management tool would be to
open the protocol layer always read-write and to make only the format
layer read-only for backing files. However, sometimes the file is
actually stored on read-only storage and we don't know whether the image
can be opened read-write (for example, for NBD it depends on the server
we're trying to connect to). This adds an option that makes QEMU try to
open the image read-write, but allows it to degrade to a read-only mode
without returning an error.
The documentation for this option is consciously phrased in a way that
allows QEMU to switch to a better model eventually: Instead of trying
when the image is first opened, making the read-only flag dynamic and
changing it automatically whenever the first BLK_PERM_WRITE user is
attached or the last one is detached would be much more useful
behaviour.
Unfortunately, this more useful behaviour is also a lot harder to
implement, and libvirt needs a solution now before it can switch to
-blockdev, so let's start with this easier approach for now.
Instead of adding a new auto-read-only option, turning the existing
read-only into an enum (with a bool alternate for compatibility) was
considered, but it complicated the implementation to the point that it
didn't seem to be worth it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
It is only an oversight that we don't allow incremental backup with
blockdev-backup. Add the bitmap argument which enables this.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180830211605.13683-2-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
